Taragin Dorit, Tzuriel David, Vakil Eli
Bar-Ilan University, Hemdat Hadarom College, Israel.
Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
J Eye Mov Res. 2019 Nov 6;12(8). doi: 10.16910/jemr.12.8.2.
The effects of gender, strategy and task characteristics on children's mental rotation (MR) behavioral measures and eye movements were studied. Eye movements reflect thinking pattern and assist understanding mental rotation performance. Eighty-three fourth-grade children (44 boys and 39 girls) were administered the Computerized Windows Mental Rotation test (CWMR) while having their eye movements monitored and completed a Strategy Self-Report (global/local/combined) and a Spatial Span (WM) subtest. Difficulty level affected performance and was reflected in a different eye movement pattern. Boys were more accurate than girls, but they did not differ in their eye movement pattern. Eye movement pattern was related to strategy, accu-racy and reaction time, revealing that the global and combined strategy were more effective compared with local strategy. WM was found to correlate with accuracy at the easy level of the test. The usage of eye movement measures assists in elaborating our knowledge regarding MR performance among chil-dren and enable a wider understanding regarding the interaction between gender, strategy and difficulty level.
研究了性别、策略和任务特征对儿童心理旋转（MR）行为指标及眼动的影响。眼动反映思维模式，有助于理解心理旋转表现。83名四年级儿童（44名男孩和39名女孩）在进行眼动监测的同时接受了计算机化窗口心理旋转测试（CWMR），并完成了策略自我报告（全局/局部/综合）和空间广度（WM）子测试。难度水平影响表现，并反映在不同的眼动模式中。男孩比女孩更准确，但他们的眼动模式没有差异。眼动模式与策略、准确性和反应时间相关，表明全局和综合策略比局部策略更有效。发现在测试的简单水平上，WM与准确性相关。眼动测量方法的使用有助于深化我们对儿童MR表现的认识，并能更广泛地理解性别、策略和难度水平之间的相互作用。
