Table 1 Papers in this special issue

1. Spatial Thinking and the Skill of Mental Rotation

1.1. Spatial thinking in infancy: Origins and development of mental rotation between 3 and 10 months of age

Scott P. Johnson and David S. Moore

1.2. Strengthening spatial reasoning: Elucidating the attentional and neural mechanisms associated with mental rotation skill development

Katherine C. Moen, Melissa R. Beck, Stephanie M. Saltzmann, Tovah M. Cowan, Lauryn M. Burleigh, Leslie G. Butler, Jagannathan Ramanujam, Alex S. Cohen, and Steven G. Greening

1.3. Spatial anxiety mediates the sex difference in adult mental rotation test performance

Daniela Alvarez-Vargas, Carla Abad, and Shannon M. Pruden

1.4. Telling right from right: The influence of handedness in the mental rotation of hands

You Cheng, Mary Hegarty, and Elizabeth R. Chrastil

1.5. Spatial ability contributes to memory for delayed intentions

Veit Kubik, Fabio Del Missier, and Timo Mäntylä

2. Spatial Thinking in the Classroom Context or in STEM Curricula

2.1. Situating space: Using a discipline-focused lens to examine spatial thinking skills

Kinnari Atit, David H. Uttal, and Mike Stieff

2.2. Gesture during math instruction specifically benefits learners with high visuospatial working memory capacity

Mary Aldugom, Kimberly Fenn, and Susan Wagner Cook

2.3. When it all falls down: The relationship between intuitive physics and spatial cognition

Alex Mitko and Jason Fischer

2.4. Focus on the notice: Evidence of spatial skills’ effect on middle school learning from a computer simulation

Colleen M. Epler-Ruths, Scott McDonald, Amy Pallant, and Hee-Sun Lee

2.5. Unpacking the black box of translation: A framework for infusing spatial thinking into curricula

Kristin M. Gagnier and Kelly R. Fisher

2.6. Elementary teachers’ attitudes and beliefs about spatial thinking and mathematics

Heather Burte, Aaron L. Gardony, Allyson Hutton, and Holly A. Taylor

3. Spatial Thinking in Wayfinding or Large-Scale Spatial Cognition

3.1. Reference frames in spatial communication for navigation and sports: An empirical study in ultimate frisbee players

Steven M. Weisberg and Anjan Chatterjee

3.2. Exploring the effects of geographic scale on spatial learning

Jiayan Zhao, Mark Simpson, Jan Oliver Wallgrün, Pejman Sajjadi, and Alexander Klippel

3.3. Where are we going and where have we been? Examining the effects of maps on spatial learning in an indoor guided navigation task

Mallory C. Stites, Laura E. Matzen, and Zoe N. Gastelum

3.4. Improving cognitive mapping by training for people with a poor sense of direction

Toru Ishikawa and Yiren Zhou

3.5. Uncertainty promotes information-seeking actions, but what information?

Ashlynn M. Keller, Holly A. Taylor, and Tad T. Brunyé

3.6. Spatial activity participation in childhood and adolescence: Consistency and relations to spatial thinking in adolescence

Emily Grossnickle Peterson, Adam B. Weinberger, David H. Uttal, Bob Kolvoord, and Adam E. Green

3.7. Childhood wayfinding experience explains sex and individual differences in adult wayfinding strategy and anxiety

Vanessa Vieites, Shannon M. Pruden, and Bethany C. Reeb-Sutherland