News tagged with spatial abilities
Robot influences behavioral development of quail chicks
(PhysOrg.com) -- In one of the latest studies in the growing field of animal-robot interaction, researchers have found that young quail chicks that interact with autonomous mobile robots have improved spatial ...
Sep 22, 2011 |
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New study disputes notion that men are better at spatial thinking than women
(PhysOrg.com) -- Throughout much of human history, it has been assumed by both men and women that men are somehow better able to solve so-described spatial problems than are women. This apparent discrepancy has been used ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 31, 2011 |
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Improving sonography requires improving sonography school admissions
Diagnostic ultrasounds are the most widely used medical tests in the world. Though the technology is more than 50 years old, scientists continue to discover new uses for it, ranging from more targeted cancer treatments to ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 08, 2010 |
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Gender gap in spatial ability can be reduced through training
Barriers to children's achievement in the areas of science, math, and engineering have become a particular concern as policymakers focus on America's economic competitiveness. A gender difference in girls' spatial abilities ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 15, 2010 |
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Language Helps People Solve Spatial Problems: Study
(PhysOrg.com) -- Language appears to be key in helping humans figure out the physical world. By testing people who use an emerging sign language in Nicaragua, Wellesley College Assistant Professor of Psychology Jennie Pyers ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 27, 2010 |
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Magic flout: new study nixes idea Mozart makes you smarter
Listening to Mozart does not make you more intelligent, researchers from the Austrian composer's homeland said on Monday, contradicting a popular 1993 study that first coined the "Mozart effect."
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 10, 2010 |
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Ability to literally imagine oneself in another's shoes may be tied to empathy
New research from Vanderbilt University indicates the way our brain handles how we move through space -- including being able to imagine literally stepping into someone else's shoes -- may be related to how ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 23, 2009 |
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