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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.

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spatial ability
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spatial ability
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spatial ability

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Tasks that are asserted to measure spatial ability

Task Contrast Measure

Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test
  • matrices

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
  • areas of activation during task minus baseline
  • average time of men minus average time of women

spatial n-back task
  • 0-back

pointing task
  • standard deviation of error

MicroCog
  • subject score minus population-matched average score

mental rotation task
  • areas of activation during task minus baseline
  • average male score minus average female score

Kanizsa figures
  • accuracy of participant minus average accuracy of controls

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