Does the ability to rotate images influences the knowledge of a city?

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Jesús A. Dopico
Universidade da Coruña
Spain
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María Ángeles González
Universidade da Coruña
Spain
Biography
Diego Campos-Juanatey
Universidade da Coruña
Spain
Vol. Extr., núm. 01 (2015) - XIII CIG-PP, XIII Congreso Internacional G-P de Psicopedagogía. Área 1: APRENDIZAJE, MEMORIA Y MOTIVACIÓN, pages 178-181
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17979/reipe.2015.0.01.945
Submitted: Jul 7, 2015 Accepted: Aug 26, 2015 Published: Oct 26, 2015
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The aim of this study was to analyze the knowledge from the streets of A Coruña among students of the Faculty of Economics and Business in this city, and also find out if the ability to rotate images, and years spent in the city, were influencing this knowledge. A group of 88 students of the Degree in Business Administration from the University of A Coruña was selected. People who had been in the city for more than 10 years, identified more streets with the correct name than those who were in the city less than 10 years, however, among participants with high and low ability to rotate images, no significant differences in the number of correct names city streets were found.

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Mental rotation, Familiarity, City, Memory

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