Spatial ability is a bit of a fuzzy concept. There are lots of different tests that can be used to assess it, like mentally rotating a 3D shape or reasoning out how a mechanical object would work. Are ...

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, ...

Spatial reasoning measured in infancy predicts how children do at math at four years of age, finds a new study. It provides the earliest documented evidence for a relationship between spatial ...

Duke University Talent Identification Program researcher Jonathan Wai has an interesting column in which he questions why our educational system doesn't value spatial reasoning as much as it values ...

On Tuesday, AEI’s Ryan Streeter hosted a discussion with Jonathan Wai from the University of Arkansas and David Uttal from Northwestern University. Dr. Wai and Dr. Uttal presented findings from their ...

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 ...

Exceptional spatial ability at age 13 predicts creative and scholarly achievements over 30 years later, according to new results. Exceptional spatial ability at age 13 predicts creative and scholarly ...

There’s an enduring stereotype that women tend to be worse than men when it comes to spatial reasoning. Mentally rotating an object, coming up with strategies to maneuver a big piece of furniture ...