Comparison of mental rotation of elite and non-elite male and female Athletes

The goal of current survey is to study deference of performance of mental rotation into groups of elite and non-elite athletes with considering of gender differences. Current survey is a semi-experimental type and models are chosen from elite athletes of swimming clubs and volleyball clubs of Tabriz and also athlete students of Tabriz Azad University in an objective matter models which include 100 people; that which is consisting of 50 elite athletes (professional) and 50 athlete students of Tabriz Azad University. Each group consists of 25 male and 25 female models. For measuring the performance of mental rotation peters examination of mental rotation was applied. The test of kolmogorov smirnov is used to investigate the naturalness of data and two-way variance analysis test was used for comparison of averages. The findings were showing that the performance of mental rotation in elite and professional athletes had meaningful difference in comparison with student athletes of Tabriz Azad University (p=0.0001) also performance of mental rotation in male models has meaningful deference in comparison with female models (p=0.008).In general the results were showing superiority of elite athletes and male models in abilities of mental rotation. Since the physical activities increase mental rotation it can be assumed that physical activities will increase other cognitive areas and this case is worth executing in education and nourishment and also in club levels.