You will take four tests in this experiment.

In each test you will be shown a three-dimensional sculpture made of a variety of bent rods inserted into some of the holes in a piece of pegboard. Your job will be to build a replica of the sculpture that you are shown.

The rod sculpture you are to copy may be shown to you on a computer monitor, in a virtual reality head worn display, or physically present on the table.

To build your replica of the rod sculpture you see, you will be given an empty piece of pegboard and a set of bent rods, some of which are the right ones with which to build the replica and some of which don’t belong in the replica.

After completing this part of the experiment, you will be seated at a computer workstation to complete a questionnaire and a spatial aptitude test, designed to measure people’s ability to visualise 3D geometry. The entire process should take no more than an hour.