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July 3, 1972--Registering for summer school was an entirely new spatial experience for the students who stood in line next to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, in town to study Arabic...
...Diana Gargon of the Graduate School of Education sponsored a research project on "video game-playing and spatial perception," and as part of the project gave students five hours of free playing time for one week. The project will discover" a whole new type of literacy," Gargon said...
...Sperry, who shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine with two Harvard professors in 1981, has achieved far more. He performed brilliant and often misconstrued experiments which showed that the two halves of the brain perform different functions: the left half predominating in verbal tasks, the right in spatial tasks...
...reported in last week's New England Journal of Medicine. Neurologist Daniel B. Hier and Internist William F. Crowley gave intelligence tests to 19 men with a rare disorder that inhibits the pubertal surge of male hormones, androgens. The subjects scored lower than normal males on tests of spatial ability, the capacity to visualize and mentally manipulate objects in space. Girls usually score lower than boys on tests of this skill, which is considered to be important in higher mathematics, physics and engineering. The study, say the authors, suggests that androgens are "essential to the full development of spatial...
...domain. With Researcher Sharon Senk, Professor Zalman Usiskin, a specialist in high school mathematics curriculums and an author of several math texts, studied 1,366 tenth-graders. They were selected from geometry classes and tested on their ability to solve geometry proofs, a subject requiring both abstract reasoning and spatial ability. Says Usiskin: "If you're a math whiz or a computer bug, you're going to pick up equations and formulas that will help you with tests like the SAT. But geometry proof is never learned outside of school." The conclusion reached by Usiskin and Senk: there...