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What These Findings Tell Us. Reply to Kelly et al. What Do These Findings Tell Us? Comment on “Tinella et al. Cognitive Efficiency and Fitness-to-Drive along the Lifespan: The Mediation Effect of Visuospatial Transformations. Brain Sci. 2021, 11, 1028”

The study of the contribution of spatial transformation skills to driving behavior is a research topic substantiated by scarce evidence. In previous studies, we found that mental rotation and perspective-taking skills have an influence on performance in driving tasks by conveying the distal effects...

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Autores principales: Tinella, Luigi, Lopez, Antonella, Caffò, Alessandro Oronzo, Nardulli, Francesco, Grattagliano, Ignazio, Bosco, Andrea
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8870729/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35203941
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12020178
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author Tinella, Luigi
Lopez, Antonella
Caffò, Alessandro Oronzo
Nardulli, Francesco
Grattagliano, Ignazio
Bosco, Andrea
author_facet Tinella, Luigi
Lopez, Antonella
Caffò, Alessandro Oronzo
Nardulli, Francesco
Grattagliano, Ignazio
Bosco, Andrea
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description The study of the contribution of spatial transformation skills to driving behavior is a research topic substantiated by scarce evidence. In previous studies, we found that mental rotation and perspective-taking skills have an influence on performance in driving tasks by conveying the distal effects of the general cognitive efficiency on the execution of driving maneuvers. Studies have provided evidence on the relevance of the cognitive processes of encoding, imagined rotation, and spatial orientation in the accuracy of both the vehicle management during stressful driving situations and the acquisition of visual information on the traffic scenario. Results can find applications in both the training and the assessment of fitness to drive, as well as in the study of interaction between the drivers and in-vehicle devices. The lack of cross-validations in path analysis models cannot be assumed, a priori, to be capitalizing on chance and as an example of bad science. The non-replicability of a study should be demonstrated before it is proclaimed. The purpose of this reply was to address the questions raised by Kelly et al. (2022)—that is, “Do these results seem replicable?” and “How do these results advance our understanding of brain function and/or human behavior?”—by providing additional information on the study in question.
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spelling pubmed-88707292022-02-25 What These Findings Tell Us. Reply to Kelly et al. What Do These Findings Tell Us? Comment on “Tinella et al. Cognitive Efficiency and Fitness-to-Drive along the Lifespan: The Mediation Effect of Visuospatial Transformations. Brain Sci. 2021, 11, 1028” Tinella, Luigi Lopez, Antonella Caffò, Alessandro Oronzo Nardulli, Francesco Grattagliano, Ignazio Bosco, Andrea Brain Sci Reply The study of the contribution of spatial transformation skills to driving behavior is a research topic substantiated by scarce evidence. In previous studies, we found that mental rotation and perspective-taking skills have an influence on performance in driving tasks by conveying the distal effects of the general cognitive efficiency on the execution of driving maneuvers. Studies have provided evidence on the relevance of the cognitive processes of encoding, imagined rotation, and spatial orientation in the accuracy of both the vehicle management during stressful driving situations and the acquisition of visual information on the traffic scenario. Results can find applications in both the training and the assessment of fitness to drive, as well as in the study of interaction between the drivers and in-vehicle devices. The lack of cross-validations in path analysis models cannot be assumed, a priori, to be capitalizing on chance and as an example of bad science. The non-replicability of a study should be demonstrated before it is proclaimed. The purpose of this reply was to address the questions raised by Kelly et al. (2022)—that is, “Do these results seem replicable?” and “How do these results advance our understanding of brain function and/or human behavior?”—by providing additional information on the study in question. MDPI 2022-01-29 /pmc/articles/PMC8870729/ /pubmed/35203941 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12020178 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Tinella, Luigi
Lopez, Antonella
Caffò, Alessandro Oronzo
Nardulli, Francesco
Grattagliano, Ignazio
Bosco, Andrea
What These Findings Tell Us. Reply to Kelly et al. What Do These Findings Tell Us? Comment on “Tinella et al. Cognitive Efficiency and Fitness-to-Drive along the Lifespan: The Mediation Effect of Visuospatial Transformations. Brain Sci. 2021, 11, 1028”
title What These Findings Tell Us. Reply to Kelly et al. What Do These Findings Tell Us? Comment on “Tinella et al. Cognitive Efficiency and Fitness-to-Drive along the Lifespan: The Mediation Effect of Visuospatial Transformations. Brain Sci. 2021, 11, 1028”
title_full What These Findings Tell Us. Reply to Kelly et al. What Do These Findings Tell Us? Comment on “Tinella et al. Cognitive Efficiency and Fitness-to-Drive along the Lifespan: The Mediation Effect of Visuospatial Transformations. Brain Sci. 2021, 11, 1028”
title_fullStr What These Findings Tell Us. Reply to Kelly et al. What Do These Findings Tell Us? Comment on “Tinella et al. Cognitive Efficiency and Fitness-to-Drive along the Lifespan: The Mediation Effect of Visuospatial Transformations. Brain Sci. 2021, 11, 1028”
title_full_unstemmed What These Findings Tell Us. Reply to Kelly et al. What Do These Findings Tell Us? Comment on “Tinella et al. Cognitive Efficiency and Fitness-to-Drive along the Lifespan: The Mediation Effect of Visuospatial Transformations. Brain Sci. 2021, 11, 1028”
title_short What These Findings Tell Us. Reply to Kelly et al. What Do These Findings Tell Us? Comment on “Tinella et al. Cognitive Efficiency and Fitness-to-Drive along the Lifespan: The Mediation Effect of Visuospatial Transformations. Brain Sci. 2021, 11, 1028”
title_sort what these findings tell us. reply to kelly et al. what do these findings tell us? comment on “tinella et al. cognitive efficiency and fitness-to-drive along the lifespan: the mediation effect of visuospatial transformations. brain sci. 2021, 11, 1028”
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8870729/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35203941
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12020178
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