Spatial ability has long been regarded as important in STEM, and mental rotation, a
subcategory of spatial ability, is widely accepted as the cognitive ability with the largest …

Much recent research has focused on the relation between spatial skills and mathematical
skills, which has resulted in widely reported links between these two skill sets. However, the …

Visuospatial (VS) skills, or one's ability to mentally manipulate spatial information about
objects, are critical to STEM enrollment, retention, and achievement. Low level of VS skills …

The aim of this issue is to take stock of cognitive science of human variation in the field of
spatial navigation, an important domain in which debates have often assumed an invariant …

Empirical interdisciplinary research has explored the role of spatial ability in STEM learning
and achievement. While most of this research indicates that fostering spatial thinking in …

Spatial skills can predict mathematics performance, with many researchers investigating
how and why these skills are related. However, a literature review on spatial ability revealed …

Spatial reasoning, the ability to mentally represent and transform objects and their relations,
is considered so closely connected to mathematics that there is no longer a question of …

Background This study investigates undergraduate STEM students' interpretation of
quantities and quantitative relationships on graphical representations in biology (population …

Common tests of spatial skills do not simply test one's ability to mentally manipulate shapes.
Instead, many popular assessments depend on a separate ability to comprehend two …

Spatial thinking is ubiquitous in design. Design education across all age groups
encompasses a range of spatially challenging activities, such as forming and modifying …