Everything about Visual thinking
Thinking through visual processing
Visual thinking, also called visual or spatial learning or picture thinking, is the phenomenon of thinking through visual processing. Visual thinking has been described as seeing words as a series of pictures. It is common in approximately 60–65% of the general population. "Real picture thinkers", those who use visual thinking almost to the exclusion of other kinds of thinking, make up a smaller percentage of the population. Research by child development theorist Linda Kreger Silverman suggests that less than 30% of the population strongly uses visual/spatial thinking, another 45% uses both visual/spatial thinking and thinking in the form of words, and 25% thinks exclusively in words. According to Kreger Silverman, of the 30% of the general population who use visual/spatial thinking, only a small percentage would use this style over and above all other forms of thinking, and can be said to be true "picture thinkers". Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Visual thinkingA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Visual Thinking Strategies in medical education: a systematic reviewInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: The Magic of Thinking BigThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Visual Thinking in the Ice AgeCited 45 times
- Go sideways: Block design testA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Eidetic memoryA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Visual Thinking in the Ice Age
Visual Thinking Strategies = Creative and Critical Thinking
A Plea for Visual Thinking
Visual-spatial thinking in geometry and the visual arts.
Visual thinking and simplicity of proof
Design timescapes: futuring through visual thinking
TIMELINESUnderstanding visual thinking
Visual Thinking and Similar Phenomena
🆕 Influential since 2022
Visual Thinking Strategies in medical education: a systematic review
Art Museum-Based Teaching: Visual Thinking Strategies
$$\alpha$$ILP: thinking visual scenes as differentiable logic programs
Visual Thinking Strategies—Theory and Applied Areas of Insertion
Relevance of Visual Thinking Strategies for Psychiatry Training
📚 Books worth reading
The Magic of Thinking BigDavid Joseph Schwartz · 1900
Creative visualizationShakti Gawain, Marci Shimoff · 1978
Thinking visuallyStephen K. Reed · 2010
The astonishing hypothesisFrancis Crick · 1993
Mind HacksTom Stafford, Matt Webb · 2004
Structure of the visual bookKeith A. Smith · 1984
Drawing on the artist withinBetty Edwards · 1986
An Illustrated Book of Bad ArgumentsAli Almossawi, Alejandro Giraldo · 2013
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