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 ...

Preschool children who hear their parents describe the size and shape of objects and then use those words themselves perform better on tests of their spatial skills, researchers have found. The study ...

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 ...

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 ...

Analysis: Developing your spatial ability has been shown to have a positive effect on performance in maths and other STEM-related subjects You have probably seen a scene like this somewhere at some ...

We welcome guest bloggers Tamara Toub, Postdoctoral Fellow, Temple University; Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Professor of Psychology, Temple University and Senior Fellow Brookings Institution; Roberta Michnick ...

Preschool children who hear parents use words describing the size and shape of objects and who then use those words in their day to day interactions do much better on tests of their spatial skills, a ...