One of the goals of intelligence testing has been to help to identify those people who are likely to be productive in life and to give them access to resources that will allow them to maximize their ...

Pictured: Dr. Ewan Kirk, co-founder of the Turner Kirk Trust. The University of Glasgow has launched the Turner Kirk Centre for Spatial Reasoning to improve maths performance in children through ...

New research from Florida International University shows children as young as three use adult-like holistic strategies to solve spatial puzzles, rotating whole objects in their minds with speed and ...

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 ...

The study of spatial language has long relied on classic frameworks distinguishing between egocentric (self-centered) and allocentric (world-centered) reference frames. However, recent breakthroughs ...

As I mentioned in a recent post, "Women’s Advantages in Social Cognition," we anticipate nuance in the pattern of cognitive sex differences and in the supporting brain systems. Broadly speaking, ...