Transforming the established perceptions of visuospatial reasoning: integrating an ecocultural perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kay Owens
Keyword(s):  
Visuospatial Reasoning

Cognitive Skills You Need for the 21st Century

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen K. Reed
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Computational Thinking ◽  
World Economic Forum ◽  
Action Categorization ◽  
Visuospatial Reasoning ◽  
The World ◽  
Imperfect Knowledge ◽  
World Economic ◽  
Knowledge Strategies

Cognitive Skills You Need for the 21st Century begins with the Future of Jobs Report 2018 of the World Economic Forum that describes trending skills through the year 2022. To assist with the development of these skills, the book describes techniques that should benefit everyone. The 20 chapters occupy 6 sections on acquiring knowledge (comprehension, action, categorization, abstraction), organizing knowledge (matrices, networks, hierarchies), reasoning (visuospatial reasoning, imperfect knowledge, strategies), problem-solving (problems, design, dynamics), artificial intelligence (data sciences, explainable AI, information sciences, general AI), and education (complex systems, computational thinking, continuing education). Classical research, recent research, personal anecdotes, and a few exercises provide a broad introduction to this critical topic.

scholarly journals Visuospatial Reasoning and Its Relation to External Variables

2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (58) ◽  
pp. 197-204
Author(s):  
Juliana Carnevalli Siqueira Nery ◽  
Fabián Javier Marín Rueda
Keyword(s):  
Age Group ◽  
Older Students ◽  
Normative Sample ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Visuospatial Reasoning ◽  
External Variables ◽  
Belo Horizonte ◽  
Performance Results ◽  
The City ◽  
Age And Sex

In this study, the relation of age and sex with visuospatial reasoning assessed by the Cube Test was investigated. In addition, a comparative study was conducted between this study sample and the normative group of the test with regard to visuospatial reasoning performance results. Six hundred and eighty-four students participated in this study, from the city of Belo Horizonte (State of Minas Gerais, Brazil), aged between 15 and 57 years old, both male and female. The results showed both age and sex differences, where younger students showed a significantly higher performance than older students and men showed significantly higher averages than women in every test comparison. In the study with the normative sample, men showed higher averages than women throughout every age group and in the overall result of both studies. The results obtained reflect those found in the literature and highlight the influence of age and sex on visuospatial reasoning.

Modeling visuospatial reasoning

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen K. Reed
Keyword(s):  
Visuospatial Reasoning

Visuospatial Reasoning

2020 ◽  
pp. 81-91
Author(s):  
Stephen K. Reed
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Information ◽  
Visual Images ◽  
Geographic Education ◽  
Rule Based ◽  
New Information ◽  
Visuospatial Reasoning ◽  
Map Design ◽  
Human Thinking ◽  
Everyday Reasoning ◽  
Algebraic Solutions

Visual thinking has aided many scientific discoveries and is also useful in everyday reasoning. The Animation Tutor provides animation feedback to help students improve their ability to estimate and calculate answers to problems. Examples include calculating the average speed of a round trip and using spatial relationships as a substitute for deriving algebraic solutions. Computer simulations of human thinking have emphasized rule-based reasoning, but these simulations now include a visual buffer to model visuospatial reasoning. It is often difficult to discover new information in visual images such as reinterpreting an ambiguous figure although people are more successful in mentally combining figures to create useful objects. Applications of research on cognitive geography include improving spatial information, geographic education, map design, urban planning, and landscape design.

scholarly journals A Cross-Sectional Investigation of Cognition and Ultrasound-Based Vascular Strain Indices

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
N H Meshram ◽  
D Jackson ◽  
T Varghese ◽  
C C Mitchell ◽  
S M Wilbrand ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Executive Function ◽  
Memory Function ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Significant Group ◽  
Cognitive Domains ◽  
Plaque Instability ◽  
Language Functions ◽  
Asymptomatic Patients ◽  
Visuospatial Reasoning ◽  
Function Correlation

Abstract Objective We examine the relationship between variability in the plaque strain distribution estimated using ultrasound with multiple cognitive domains including executive, language, visuospatial reasoning, and memory function. Method Asymptomatic (n = 42) and symptomatic (n = 34) patients with significant (>60%) carotid artery stenosis were studied for plaque instability using ultrasound strain imaging and multiple cognitive domains including executive, language, visuospatial reasoning, and memory function. Correlation and ROC analyses were performed between ultrasound strain indices and cognitive function. Strain indices and cognition scores were also compared between symptomatic and asymptomatic patients to determine whether there are significant group differences. Results Association of high-strain distributions with dysexecutive function was observed in both asymptomatic and symptomatic patients. For memory, visuospatial, and language functions, the correlations between strain and cognition were weaker for the asymptomatic compared to symptomatic group. Conclusions Both asymptomatic and symptomatic patients demonstrate a relationship between vessel strain indices and executive function indicating that silent strokes and micro-emboli could initially contribute to a decline in executive function, whereas strokes and transient ischemic attacks may cause the further decline in other cognitive functions.

Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: Neuropsychological profile in an extended series of cases

2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 807-810 ◽  
Author(s):  
KARI HAWKINS ◽  
GURJIT CHOHAN ◽  
CHRISTOPHER KIPPS ◽  
ROBERT WILL ◽  
NARINDER KAPUR
Keyword(s):  
Verbal Memory ◽  
Visual Processing ◽  
Verbal Fluency ◽  
Memory Span ◽  
Neuropsychological Profile ◽  
Visuospatial Reasoning ◽  
Symbol Substitution ◽  
Jakob Disease ◽  
Verbal Knowledge ◽  
Timed Tests

AbstractNeuropsychological data on an extended series of cases of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD) are presented, complementing earlier findings from smaller sample studies of this condition. Distinct neuropsychological features in this extended series included relatively preserved verbal knowledge, immediate verbal memory span, and elementary visual processing. This sparing contrasted with ubiquitous impairment in every vCJD patient on timed tests of verbal fluency and digit-symbol substitution. There were also high rates of impairment on tests of memory, and of visuoperceptual and visuospatial reasoning. Our findings lend support to the view that distinctive neuropsychological features may be one of the diagnostic markers of the condition. (JINS, 2009, 15, 807–810.)

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