Word: spatialism
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This is one of the rare times when Harvard students experiencing an experimental production do not leave the audience dispassionately dazed. Director Sarah Toby Stewart has fully utilized the Ex's spatial and technological options. She has impressively combined visual and aural effects with striking lighting, appropriate music, and a compelling script...
...denouement depicts Eve's death and Adam's realization that although they had been expelled from Eden, for Adam "wherever Eve was, there was Eden." Schwartz direct this scene well and the combined effects of the set, the lights and the music along with the spatial placement of the characters present a dramatic and effective finale...
Researchers speculate that the greater communication between the two sides | of the brain could impair a woman's performance of certain highly specialized visual-spatial tasks. For example, the ability to tell directions on a map without physically having to rotate it appears stronger in those individuals whose brains restrict the process to the right hemisphere. Any crosstalk between the two sides apparently distracts the brain from its job. Sure enough, several studies have shown that this mental-rotation skill is indeed more tightly focused in men's brains than in women...
...instance, that mother rats lick their male offspring more frequently than they do their daughters. However, Juraska has demonstrated that it is possible to reverse some inequities by manipulating environmental factors. Female rats have fewer nerve connections than males into the hippocampus, a brain region associated with spatial relations and memory. But when Juraska "enriched" the cages of the females with stimulating toys, the females developed more of these neuronal connections. "Hormones do affect things -- it's crazy to deny that," says the researcher. "But there's no telling which way sex differences might go if we completely changed...
Even so, women still have not caught up with men on the mental-rotation test. Fascinated by the persistence of that gap, psychologists Irwin Silverman and Marion Eals of York University in Ontario wondered if there were any spatial tasks at which women outperformed men. Looking at it from the point of view of human evolution, Silverman and Eals reasoned that while men may have developed strong spatial skills in response to evolutionary pressures to be successful hunters, women would have needed other types of visual skills to excel as gatherers and foragers of food...