Most tests and school curricula are primarily suited to the types of students who excel in mathematics and verbal reasoning. The missing factor in testing and education policy is the measurement, ...

The study tested participants' performance on a number of intelligence tests, with questions, similar to this one, testing subjects' spatial reasoning. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...

In the first of this four-part series, Professor Emily Farran, Catherine Gripton, Sue Gifford and Alison Borthwick consider the spatial possibilities of outdoor play Understanding how objects, ...

There is a lot more to shapes than knowing their names, explain Prof Emily Farran, Dr Catherine Gripton, Dr Sue Gifford and Dr Alison Borthwick It's important to use spatial language during activities ...

Think before you speak may be apt advice, but new research suggests that speaking first fosters the ability to think later. Studies of spatial reasoning in deaf children support the idea that words ...

Some of the spatial abilities in which boys and men have an advantage appear to contribute to the ability to visualize how objects might be used as tools and are likely important in the construction ...