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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Mental rotation is a key cognitive ability involving spatial processing.
  • Working memory capacity and cognitive processing speed change across the lifespan.
  • Understanding these changes is crucial for cognitive development and aging research.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate developmental changes in mental rotation performance.
  • To compare object-based and egocentric transformations in children, adults, and older adults.
  • To explore the role of working memory and cognitive speed in these age-related differences.

Main Methods:

  • Participants included children, adults, and older adults.
  • Mental rotation tasks assessed object-based and egocentric transformations.
  • Reaction times and accuracy were measured.

Main Results:

  • Children and older adults demonstrated significantly longer reaction times than adults.
  • An advantage for object-based over egocentric transformations was observed only in children.
  • Working memory capacity and cognitive processing speed are implicated in age-related performance differences.

Conclusions:

  • Impaired working memory capacity contributes to slower mental rotation in children and older adults.
  • Cognitive processing speed is a potential underlying factor for age-related changes in mental rotation.
  • Children may exhibit specific deficits in perspective-taking abilities compared to adults and older adults.