Talk:Spatial visualization ability
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Trainable[edit]
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 2008 Aug;15(4):763-71. "Training generalized spatial skills." Wright R, Thompson WL, Ganis G, Newcombe NS, Kosslyn SM.
...The present study investigated whether intensive long-term practice leads to change that transcends stimulus and task parameters. Thirty-one participants (14 male, 17 female) were tested on three cognitive tasks: a computerized version of the Shepard-Metzler (1971) mental rotation task (MRT), a mental paper-folding task (MPFT), and a verbal analogies task (VAT). Each individual then participated in daily practice sessions with the MRT or the MPFT over 21 days. Postpractice comparisons revealed transfer of practice gains to novel stimuli for the practiced task, as well as transfer to the other, nonpracticed spatial task. Thus, practice effects were process based, not instance based. Improvement in the nonpracticed spatial task was greater than that in the VAT; thus, improvement was not merely due to greater ease with computerized testing.
--Gwern (contribs) 19:56 26 June 2009 (GMT)
"Not to be confused with Visual thinking"[edit]
I put the above note at the top of the article because it seems to me that the two articles are on separate subjects, in spite of some overlaps in naming. Is that correct? (I'm asking because I know nothing about these subjects.)--A bit iffy (talk) 10:24, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
- I was surprised to see this notice. And I do not believe you are correct. They are indeed very much related. Spatial thinking or spatial visualization ability is a more specific topic than visual thinking. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.31.237.239 (talk) 05:59, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
Redirect proposal[edit]
I propose that Spatial-temporal reasoning (in psychology) is redirected to Spatial visualization ability, for two reasons:
- The section is almost empty, there is nothing in those few lines that is not also in this article:
- Spatial-temporal reasoning is a part of spatial visualization ability; so if somebody would write more on spatial-temporal reasoning, it is better to do it as a part of this article. Lova Falk talk 10:27, 14 October 2012 (UTC)
