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Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications
Fig. 4 | Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications

Fig. 4

From: Strengthening spatial reasoning: elucidating the attentional and neural mechanisms associated with mental rotation skill development

Fig. 4

The top panel represents a sample trial during the pre-training session of one participant. Blue circles represent fixations, and the numbers inside circles represent fixation order. The diameter of the circle represents the duration of the fixation. The red arrows from one circle to the next represent saccades within an object. Long black arrows represent switches between objects. This participant initially used a global strategy (fixations 1–3; long fixations, long saccades) and switched to a local strategy (fixations 4–9; short fixations, short saccades) after the first examination on the first object (left). In the current study, saccade amplitude increases after training for the experimental group for both cubes task (a) and the molecules task (b). The number of saccades between objects decreased after training for the experimental group for the cubes task (c) and the molecules task (d)

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