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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Cindy Elliott is director of business industry at Esri. This article is more than 2 years old. FEDEX IS ONE OF THOSE COMPANIES ...

Of the many contributions that Jerome Bruner made to the scientific study of education, perhaps none is more important than his insistence that we must challenge students to learn and to think and ...

It’s pretty easy to link humans’ intelligence to our success as a species. Things like agriculture, building cities, and surviving in harsh environments require a large collection of mental skills, ...

Sometimes illumination comes to our rescue at the very moment when all seems lost; we have knocked at every door and they open on nothing until, at last, we stumble unconsciously against the only one ...

The superior colliculus is a midbrain region that is traditionally thought to help animals orient themselves toward important locations in space, like directing their eyes and head toward a bright ...

Neuroscientists have documented a link between spatial and verbal reasoning by scanning students' brains while taking a course that emphasized spatial learning. The traditional tests and grades that ...

At the age of about four, children reach important milestones in brain development. One of these is a leap forward in understanding others’ thoughts and feelings. Another is in spatial thinking – ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A new program is mixing augmented reality and hands-on activities to give kids a new way to learn spatial ...

Don Murray is cofounder of Safe Software and has spent his career helping organizations bring life to data to make better decisions. How many times a day do you think about the word "where"? It likely ...

On March 15, 2003, the Economist published an article with the provocative title of “The Revenge of Geography.” The thesis is that “… it was naive to imagine that the global reach of the internet ...