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Ability to mentally manipulate 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional figures
Visuospatial ability or visual-spatial ability is the ability to mentally manipulate 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional figures. It is typically measured with simple cognitive tests and is predictive of user performance with some kinds of user interfaces. Visuospatial skills are needed for motor coordination, depth and distance perception, and spatial navigation. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Visuospatial abilityA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Mental rotation of hands and objects in ageing and Parkinson’s disease: differentiating motor imagery and visuospatial abilityInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Child NeuropsychologyThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Vestibular involvement in cognition: Visuospatial ability, attention, executive function, and memoryCited 292 times
- Go sideways: Mental rotationA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Spatial abilityA closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Vestibular involvement in cognition: Visuospatial ability, attention, executive function, and memory
A single administration of testosterone improves visuospatial ability in young women
Sex differences in episodic memory: The impact of verbal and visuospatial ability.
Verbal and Visuospatial Working Memory as Predictors of Children's Reading Ability
Visuospatial working memory and mathematical ability at different ages throughout primary school
Equivalence of parieto-preoccipital subareas for visuospatial ability in monkeys
Effects of Fetal Testosterone on Visuospatial Ability
Executive dysfunction and visuospatial ability among depressed elders in a community setting
🆕 Influential since 2022
Mental rotation of hands and objects in ageing and Parkinson’s disease: differentiating motor imagery and visuospatial ability
Patterns of language and visuospatial functional lateralization and cognitive ability: a systematic review
Navigation ability in young, middle-aged and older adults: Different domains of knowledge and their relationship with visuospatial factors
The unique contribution of motor ability to visuospatial working memory in school‐age children: Evidence from event‐related potentials
Can drawing instruction help students with low visuospatial ability in learning anatomy?
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕Child NeuropsychologyJonathan Reed · 2008
Functions of the right cerebral hemisphereYoung, Andrew W. · 1983- 📕Hormones and cognitionJulie E. Yonker · 2003
- 📕Sex differences in verbal and visuo-spatial abilitiesPeter Birdsall · 1988
Human Interface and the Management of Information. Information and Interaction for Learning, Culture, Collaboration and BusinessSakae Yamamoto · 2013- 📕Twice exceptionalScott Barry Kaufman · 2018
- 📕Psychology of individual differencesLucy M. Bertrand · 2011
- 📕Working memoryEden S. Levin · 2010
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