The Science of Testosterone || Carole Hooven
The Psychology Podcast
The Relationship Between Physical Rotation and Mental Rotation of Objects
In order to solve that problem, what's interesting is in your brain. Instead of just regenerating the image at this, like this, right upside down instead of just creating a new image. So there's this relationship between physical rotation of objects and mental rotation of objects. The degrees that you have to rotate it predicts how long you would take to answer a question about what it would look like at a different angle. And we use it in all kinds of other problem solving areas. It seems like on average, the sex difference is largest in 3D mental rotation and having to mentally rotate like a three dimensional cube that you're looking at as opposed to a two dimensional mental rotation.
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