Resources

• Moen, K. C., Beck, M. R., Saltzmann, S. M., Burleigh, L. M., Butler, L. G., Ramanujam, J., Cohen, A. S., & Greening, S. G. (2020). Strengthening spatial reasoning: Elucidating the attentional and neural mechanisms associated with mental rotation skill development. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 20(5). https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-020-00211-y​
• Beck, M.R., Goldstein, R.R., van Lamsweerde, A.E., & Ericson, J.M., (2018). Attending globally or locally: Incidental learning of optimal visual attention allocation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 44(3), 387-398. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000428​

• Eich, B. Tomshe, D.A., Hanan, R. L., Kindell. C, Ramzaoui. H, Lucas, H. & Beck, M. R. (2025, May). Cognitive Strategies in the Mental Rotation Task Revealed by Eye Tracking. Poster presented at The Annual Meeting of the Vision Science Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
• Hanan, R. L., Eich, B. Tomshe, D.A., Kindell. C, Ramzaoui. H, Lucas, H. & Beck, M. R. (2025, May). Mental Rotation: Sex and STEM Differences. Poster presented at The Annual Meeting of the Vision Science Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
• Hanan, R. L., Eich, B. Tomshe, D.A., Kindell. C, Ramzaoui. H, Lucas, H. & Beck, M. R. (2025, April). Mental Rotation: Sex and STEM Differences. Poster presented at The Annual Neuroscience Symposium, Baton Rouge, LA. 
• Beck, M. R., Moen, K. C., Saltzmann, S. M., Burleigh, L. M., Butler, L. G., Ramanujam, J., Cohen, A. S., & Greening, S.G., Lucas H. D., Eich, B.J., Tomshe, D., & Ramzaoui, H. (2024, March). Identifying the Cognitive and Neural Mechanisms of Spatial Reasoning. Poster presented at The Inaugural Neuroscience Symposium, Baton Rouge, LA. 
• Eich, B., Beck, M.R., Jiang, X., & Fan, G. (2023, May). Sphere stimuli in the mental rotation task: a new set of ecologically valid stimuli with comparative performance to traditional cube stimuli. Poster presented at The Annual Meeting of the Vision Science Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.

Eich, B., Beck, M.R., Jiang, X., & Fan, G. (2023, May).  Sphere stimuli in the mental rotation task: a new set of ecologically valid stimuli with comparative performance to traditional cube stimuli. Poster presented at The Annual Meeting of the Vision Science Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.

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Mathematikus: Rotating Bodies Task

psytoolkit: Mental Rotation Task