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Effect of Handedness on Mental Rotation

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Diagrammatic Representation and Inference (Diagrams 2018)

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The impact of the dominant hand on the response time and precision in mental rotational tasks seems to be controversial. The goal of this study was to compare the differences in response times of mental rotation tasks when the task is performed with the dominant or non-dominant hand. In this study, 44 right-handers and 45 left-handers participated in mental rotation tests with 2-D and 3-D figures. Findings indicate that the right-handers had shorter response times than left-handers in tests with both types of figures.

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  1. University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia

    Gunta Krumina, Jurgis Skilters & Annija Gulbe

  2. Pavlov Institute of Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, St.Petersburg, Russia

    Vsevolod Lyakhovetskii

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  1. Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, UK

    Peter Chapman

  2. University of Brighton, Brighton, UK

    Gem Stapleton

  3. Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia

    Amirouche Moktefi

  4. Mitre Corporation, McLean, VA, USA

    Sarah Perez-Kriz

  5. University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Francesco Bellucci

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Krumina, G., Skilters, J., Gulbe, A., Lyakhovetskii, V. (2018). Effect of Handedness on Mental Rotation. In: Chapman, P., Stapleton, G., Moktefi, A., Perez-Kriz, S., Bellucci, F. (eds) Diagrammatic Representation and Inference. Diagrams 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10871. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91376-6_69

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