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 ...

While boosting kids’ math and verbal skills may draw more attention from parents and educators, spatial reasoning skills play an important -- sometimes overlooked -- role in academic and career ...

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 ...

Do you marvel at your friend's ability to assemble complex furniture and navigate a new city, or do you all-around groan at your own lack of spatial skills? Don't fret! A new study found that you, too ...

New research from Florida International University finds that children as young as three use adult-like mental rotation strategies to solve puzzles, a skill linked to later STEM success. Early ...

SpatiaLABS 2013 Edition presents problems or topics to investigate, such as Impacts of Sea Level Rise and Storms on Manhattan, Customer Profiling: Demographic and Lifestyle Segmentation, Evaluating ...

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 ...

The term 'spatial reasoning' might sound lofty, but it's actually a skill we use close to home in our daily lives. It's used when reading a map, parking a car, assembling flat-pack furniture, or ...

Childhood play experiences strongly shape a person's spatial skills, according to a new CIRES-led study—those skills can be critical to success in fields like science and engineering. Young adults who ...

Walk into most art galleries with children, and you'll hear the familiar refrain "look but don't touch." This instruction reveals something troubling about how cultural institutions understand ...

When we read maps, pack the car for holidays, assemble flat-pack furniture or cut cake into equal slices, we use spatial reasoning skills. These allow us to mentally manipulate objects or think in a ...