In so doing, they found a need to improve verbal reasoning skills to deal with the new social environment that developed as a result. In this new effort, the researchers tested the verbal reasoning ...

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 ...

Mathematics teaching needs to be rethought because children's spatial reasoning skills are not developed enough, a new study says. Pupils who took part in the research struggled with basic geometry ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about psychology and education research and policy. Joni Lakin: Sometimes it's okay to recognize talent based on intuition ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Spatial reasoning measured in infancy predicts how children do at math at four years of age, finds a new study published in Psychological Science. "We've provided the earliest documented evidence for ...

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, ...