Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Université de Lyon, Villeurbanne, France.
Teach Learn Med. 2009 Jul;21(3):201-6. doi: 10.1080/10401330903014178.
Mental rotation (MR) is improved through practice and high MR ability is correlated to success in anatomy learning.
We investigated the effects of improving the MR ability on the Vandenberg and Kuse MR test performance and the consequences on learning functional human anatomy.
Forty-eight students were assigned into three groups: MR group (16 students attending functional anatomy course and MR training), anatomy group (16 students attending the same functional anatomy course), and the control group (n = 16). Instead of MR training, the latter 2 groups were engaged in physical activities for an equivalent time, and the control group did not attend anatomy course.
MR group performed better than the two others in the MR test and better than the anatomy group in the anatomy test.
The MR training sessions were found to improve MR test performance and were further transferred to anatomy learning.
心理旋转（MR）可以通过练习得到提高，而较高的 MR 能力与解剖学学习的成功相关。
我们研究了提高 MR 能力对范登堡和库塞 MR 测试表现的影响，以及对学习功能人体解剖学的影响。
48 名学生被分为三组：MR 组（16 名学生参加功能解剖学课程和 MR 训练）、解剖组（16 名学生参加相同的功能解剖学课程）和对照组（n = 16）。后两组进行了相当于 MR 训练的时间的体育活动，而对照组没有参加解剖学课程。
MR 组在 MR 测试中的表现优于其他两组，在解剖学测试中的表现优于解剖组。
MR 训练课程被发现可以提高 MR 测试表现，并进一步转移到解剖学学习中。
