Spatial Intelligence

Spatial Intelligence

Spatial problem solving is applied to navigation and the use of maps as a notational system. Another type of solution to space problems, appears in the display of an object viewed from a different angle and in the game of chess. Also used this type of intelligence in the visual arts.

Biological - The right hemisphere (in right-handed people) proves to be the most important site of the calculation space. The lesions in the posterior right cause damage to the ability to navigate a site, to recognize faces or scenes or see small details.

Patients with specific damage in right hemisphere regions, try to compensate for their spatial deficit linguistic strategies: reasoning aloud to try to solve a task or invent answers. But the linguistic strategies seem efficient to solve such problems.

Blind people provide a clear example of the distinction between spatial intelligence and visual perspective. A blind man can recognize certain forms through an indirect method, run your hand over an object, for example, builds a different concept to the visual length. For the blind, the perceptual system of touch-mode runs parallel to the visual modality of a person visually normal. Therefore, spatial intelligence was independent of a particular form of sensory stimulation.

Abilities involved - Ability to present ideas visually, create mental images, perceive visual details, draw and make sketches.

Related skills - Perform visual creations and display accurately.