STRENGTHENING SPATIAL REASONING: ELUCIDATING THE ATTENTIONAL AND NEURAL MECHANISMS ASSOCIATED WITH MENTAL ROTATION SKILL DEVELOPMENT

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

Abstract Spatial reasoning is a critical skill in many everyday tasks and in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines.The current study examined how training on mental 2006 scion xa catalytic converter rotation (a spatial reasoning task) impacts the completeness of an encoded representation and the ability to rotate the represe

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Large vesicle extrusions from C. elegans neurons are consumed and stimulated by glial-like phagocytosis activity of the neighboring cell

Caenorhabditis elegans neurons under stress can produce giant vesicles, several microns in diameter, called exophers.Current models suggest that exophers are neuroprotective, providing a mechanism for stressed neurons to eject toxic protein aggregates and organelles.However, little is known of the fate of the exopher once it leaves the neuron.We fo

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