A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in the U.S., has found that students taking a high school course designed to improve spatial cognition skills also got a boost in verbal ...

Pictured: Dr. Ewan Kirk, co-founder of the Turner Kirk Trust. The University of Glasgow has launched the Turner Kirk Centre for Spatial Reasoning to improve maths performance in children through ...

Qualitative spatial reasoning is a field concerned with describing and inferring the relationships between spatial entities using symbolic representations rather than precise numerical coordinates. At ...

Of the many contributions that Jerome Bruner made to the scientific study of education, perhaps none is more important than his insistence that we must challenge students to learn and to think and ...

What do puzzles, gymnastics, writing and using maps all have in common? They all rely on people's ability to visualize objects as they spin, flip or turn in space, without physically moving them. This ...

As I mentioned in a recent post, "Women’s Advantages in Social Cognition," we anticipate nuance in the pattern of cognitive sex differences and in the supporting brain systems. Broadly speaking, ...

Vision language models (VLMs) exhibit vast knowledge of the physical world, including intuition of physical and spatial properties, affordances, and motion. With fine-tuning, VLMs can also natively ...