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  • Neuroscience

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  • Mental rotation, a key spatial ability, is influenced by emotional processing.
  • Previous research suggests links between conscious emotions and mental rotation, but the role of unconscious emotions remains less explored.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between unconscious emotional evaluations and mental rotation performance.
  • To explore how implicit affective evaluations of stimuli impact spatial cognition.

Main Methods:

  • 114 students completed implicit and explicit affective evaluations and a mental rotation test using cube and pellet figures.
  • Data on spatial toy usage, spatial ability stereotyping, and self-rated spatial abilities were collected.
  • A psychometric mental rotation test was employed to assess performance.

Main Results:

  • Mental rotation performance was predicted by self-rated spatial abilities.
  • Implicit affective evaluation of cube figures also predicted mental rotation performance for cubes.
  • The mental rotation test with pellet figures proved more challenging than with cube figures.
  • No significant gender differences were found in the results.

Conclusions:

  • Findings suggest a connection between affective emotional evaluations and mental imagery processes.
  • The relationship between emotion and mental rotation may be stimulus-dependent.
  • Self-perception of spatial abilities is a significant predictor of mental rotation performance.