COLONIE – A physics professor has created a way for students to hold the unseeable in the palm of their hand, manipulating magnetic fields and electrical charges to see how they work. Using augmented ...
For years, students who are blind or visually impaired have faced a steep climb in high school math, where textbooks rely heavily on graphs, diagrams, and spatial reasoning that don't translate easily ...
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 ...
What do puzzles, gymnastics, writing and using maps all have in common? They all rely on people’s ability to visualize objects as they spin, flip or turn in space, without physically moving them. This ...
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 ...
Vision language models (VLMs) exhibit vast knowledge of the physical world, including intuition of physical and spatial properties, affordances, and motion. With fine-tuning, VLMs can also natively ...
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, ...