The Mental Rotations Test is a test of

spatial ability Spatial ability or visuo-spatial ability is the capacity to understand, reason, and remember the visual and spatial relations among objects or space. Visual-spatial abilities are used for everyday use from navigation, understanding or fixing equi ...

Steven G. Vandenberg Steven Vandenberg (July 15, 1915 in Den Helder, Netherlands, The Netherlands – August 27, 1992 in Boulder, Colorado, United States) was a Behavioural genetics, behavior geneticist who immigrated to the US after the World War II, Second World War, ...

and Allan R. Kuse, first published in 1978. It has been used in hundreds of studies since then. A meta-analysis of studies using this test showed that men performed better than women with no changes seen by birth cohort. A close analysis of subjects taking the test revealed that humans do not only rely on spatial imagery to solve the puzzles, but also involve more complex strategies.

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