Predicting cognitive styles from spatial abilities

Am J Psychol. 2006 Spring;119(1):67-86.

Abstract

Previous studies on spatial memory reveal that people represent spatial information in 3 different forms: landmark, route, and survey. The aim of this work was to assess spatial abilities in order to predict a person's cognitive style. In order to do this we used 9 different spatial tasks, which were linked with these 3 forms of spatial representations. We found that the 9 spatial tasks are able to distinguish different levels of spatial ability.

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Aptitude*
  • Attention
  • Cues
  • Depth Perception
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Internal-External Control*
  • Male
  • Orientation*
  • Pattern Recognition, Visual*
  • Psychological Tests / statistics & numerical data
  • Psychometrics
  • Reaction Time
  • Social Environment