Our obsession with screens could be quietly reshaping our brains

Spatial Awareness Processing Disorder is a condition to describe the weakening of spatial awareness due to excess screentime.
Government Technology

Program Uses Augmented Reality to Teach Preschoolers Spatial Awareness

(TNS) — The preschoolers were fascinated, looking at their classroom through the lens of an iPad camera, watching animated images pop up as a cheerful voice told them: Feed apples to a pig behind a ...
NewsBytes

Fun map activities to improve your child's spatial skills

Spatial skills are critical for a child's cognitive development, influencing their ability to solve problems, understand maps ...
Scientific American

When Students Acquire Spatial Skills, Their Verbal Abilities Get a Boost

Conventional testing can underestimate a student’s learning ability. Sociocultural barriers, test anxiety and differences in rates of brain development can skew results. In principle, neuroscience ...
Forbes

For Many, The Key To Spatial Computing Success On Vision Pro Will Be Spatial Awareness

In my initial impressions piece on Vision Pro following Apple’s WWDC keynote earlier this week, I wrote in part that what makes the forthcoming headset so fascinating, accessibility-wise, is the ...
YourTango

It Only Takes 10 Seconds To Know If You Process Information Faster Than Most Average People

Spatial intelligence is the ability to create, remember, recall, and transform visual images, no matter what angle of rotation you see it in. This form of intelligence was born out of Howard Gardner’s ...
Task & Purpose

Army orders pilots to ‘reinforce’ flying skills after 12 crashes in 6 months

After 12 crashes and 10 deaths in the past six months, the Army has ordered its aviation units to undergo mandatory safety training that will “reinforce” pilot skills like spatial awareness and power ...