180 undergraduate education majors studying mathematics were administered the Human Information Processing Survey and classified as showing Left (n = 34), Right (n = 38), Integrated (n = 28), or Mixed (n = 80) thinking styles. Rotation scores on the Purdue Spatial Visualization Test did not statistically differ among the four groups.
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