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CONCEPT
spatial ability
skill in perceiving the visual world, transforming and modifying initial perceptions, and mentally recreating spatial aspects of one's visual experience without the relevant stimuli.

Classified under Perception
Definition contributed by BGregory about one year ago.

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Task Contrast Measure
spatial location/discrimination
  • accuracy of participant minus average accuracy of controls
  
WISC-R Mazes
  • participant score minus average score
  
Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence
  • Block Design
  
visual alignment task
  • accuracy of participant minus average accuracy of controls
  
Vibrotactile Monitor/Discrimination
  • accuracy of participant minus average accuracy of controls
  
Vandenberg & Kuse Tasks
  • average time of men minus average time of women
  
  • areas of activation during task minus baseline
  
spatial n-back task
  • 0-back
  
pointing
  • standard deviation of error
  
MicroCog
  • subject score minus population-matched average score
  
mental rotation task
  • average male score minus average female score
  
  • areas of activation during task minus baseline
  
Kanizsa figures
  • accuracy of participant minus average accuracy of controls
  
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NPicchetti Initial definition retrieved from http://social.jrank.org/pages/604/Spatial-Abilities.html
about one year ago

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Definition contributed by BGregory about two years ago:
skill in perceiving the visual world, transforming and modifying initial perceptions, and mentally recreating spatial aspects of one's visual experience without the relevant stimuli. (from http://social.jrank.org/pages/604/Spatial-Abilities.html)

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Definition contributed by SAdministrator about three years ago:
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2011-05-03 BGregory: BGregory updated the definition for spatial ability. [view the changes at http://cognitiveatlas.org/term/spatial_ability]
2011-05-03 NPicchetti: Added new topic to discussion
2010-05-13 BGregory: BGregory updated the definition for spatial ability. [view the changes at http://cognitiveatlas.org/term/spatial_ability]
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