The next time you step on a Lego piece that your kids left laying around the house, you should remember that playing with the popular constructions sets and making a mess everywhere might be more ...

Men are not better than women at spatial cognition -- such as map reading -- is the principal finding from ground-breaking work. Men are not better than women at spatial cognition -- such as map ...

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 ...

The Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center (SILC), headquartered at Temple, has been awarded a $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to form the Thematic Network in Spatial Cognition ...

Research has shown that domain-general skills, such as patterning skills, working memory, and spatial reasoning, can predict children's mathematics performance (Peng & Kievit, 2020). The rationale ...

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 ...

Adolescent boys and girls begin to develop different cognitive strengths as they progress through high school, with boys ...

My research interests are focused around spatial cognition as well as individual differences in executive function, memory and working memory. A major focus of my work is in the plasticity of ...