Shannon Rosbotham is a PhD candidate studying the intersection of developmental cognitive psychology and neuroscience.

Do you struggle to visualise how to rotate your shoes so that they nest together in a shoe box? How are you with flat-packed furniture? Are you good at giving directions? These everyday activities ...

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 ...

People use spatial skills to manipulate, organize, reason about, and make sense of spatial relationships in real and imagined spaces. Estimating how much leftover mashed potatoes will fit in a storage ...

Many students in STEM experience decreased performance due to anxiety, namely math and science anxiety. However, spatial skills are correlated with better STEM outcomes. Our research addressed a ...

A sustained focus on spatial reasoning training could help children learn science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Spatial training with blocks and puzzles could unlock mathematical potential ...

The disparity of success in STEM between students from high and low socioeconomic backgrounds is a significant educational concern. Research in STEM education has shown that spatial skills play a role ...

Spatial reasoning ability in small children reflects how well they will perform in mathematics later. Researchers recently came to this conclusion, making the case for better cultivation of spatial ...

It's been debated for decades, but now researchers at the University of York and University College London have suggested that left-handedness is not linked to better spatial skills. By asking ...

The way parents interact with their children during playtime strongly influences the development of spatial skills — a predictor of success in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) ...

One of the goals of intelligence testing has been to help to identify those people who are likely to be productive in life and to give them access to resources that will allow them to maximize their ...