When parents describe the size and shape of objects to their preschool children and the kids then use those words in their day-to-day interactions, the children later perform much better on spatial ...

When it comes to navigating their surroundings, machines have a natural disadvantage compared to humans. To help hone the ...

A Swedish study posted yesterday on Science Daily suggests that teenagers are more logical than they used to be. (Obviously, those Swedish researchers haven’t visited my house.) The new results come ...

Researchers have developed a test that uses children's ability to assemble LEGO pieces to assess their spatial visualization ability. Spatial visualization is the ability to visualize 3D shapes in one ...

Culture may hold a spatial place in thought. Social forces profoundly influence people’s ability to think about three-dimensional objects, a new study suggests. In tests of spatial ability, men ...