Lara Nokovitch, Houssein El Hajj, Sophie Deneuve, Vincent De Andrade, Rémi Gagnayre, Aurore Margat
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Abstract
Introduction: Student's visual-spatial abilities appear to be an important predictor of learning time, performance and knowledge in anatomy. The objective of this systematic review was to assess the relationship between spatial abilities enhancement and spatial learning of anatomy.
Materials and methods: A systematic literature search of databases (MEDLINE, Embase, ERIC, Scopus and Web of Science) was undertaken using relevant keywords. The search included citations published from inception to December 31st, 2024. The transferability of spatial abilities enhancement to spatial learning of anatomy was assessed using a 2 × 2 classification of spatial skills, in which each visual-spatial task was coded in terms of both intrinsic-extrinsic and static-dynamic dimensions. A qualitative analysis of the results was performed.
Results: The search yielded 2135 results, which narrowed down to 8 articles after application of exclusion criteria. Significant relationships between spatial abilities and the spatial learning of anatomy were observed in five studies. Among studies reporting a positive correlation between spatial abilities and spatial learning of anatomy, within-cell transfer was observed for four studies, and across-cell transfer for one study.
Conclusions: Enhanced spatial abilities seem to transfer mainly to similar tasks related to spatial learning of anatomy. However, the spatial abilities tests used to evaluate spatial abilities were all intrinsic × dynamic. A future study using different spatial abilities tests could evaluate if spatial abilities engaging different dimensions of spatial cognition could be related to different spatial anatomy tasks.
学生的视觉空间能力似乎是学习时间、表现和解剖学知识的重要预测指标。本系统综述的目的是评估空间能力增强与解剖学空间学习之间的关系。材料与方法：采用相关关键词对MEDLINE、Embase、ERIC、Scopus、Web of Science等数据库进行系统文献检索。搜索包括从成立到2024年12月31日发表的引文。利用空间技能的2 × 2分类，对每个视觉空间任务进行内在-外在和静态-动态两个维度的编码，评估空间能力增强对解剖学空间学习的可转移性。对结果进行定性分析。结果：检索结果为2135篇，应用排除标准后，检索结果缩小到8篇。五项研究发现空间能力与解剖学空间学习之间存在显著的关系。在空间能力与解剖空间学习呈正相关的研究中，有四项研究观察到细胞内转移，一项研究观察到细胞间转移。结论：空间能力的增强似乎主要转移到与解剖学空间学习相关的类似任务中。然而，用于评价空间能力的空间能力测试都是内在的x动态的。未来的研究将使用不同的空间能力测试来评估涉及不同维度空间认知的空间能力是否与不同的空间解剖任务相关。
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