Talk:Spatial visualization ability

Trainable
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 2008 Aug;15(4):763-71. "Training generalized spatial skills." Wright R, Thompson WL, Ganis G, Newcombe NS, Kosslyn SM.

"...The present study investigated whether intensive long-term practice leads to change that transcends stimulus and task parameters. Thirty-one participants (14 male, 17 female) were tested on three cognitive tasks: a computerized version of the Shepard-Metzler (1971) mental rotation task (MRT), a mental paper-folding task (MPFT), and a verbal analogies task (VAT). Each individual then participated in daily practice sessions with the MRT or the MPFT over 21 days. Postpractice comparisons revealed transfer of practice gains to novel stimuli for the practiced task, as well as transfer to the other, nonpracticed spatial task. Thus, practice effects were process based, not instance based. Improvement in the nonpracticed spatial task was greater than that in the VAT; thus, improvement was not merely due to greater ease with computerized testing."

--Gwern (contribs) 19:56 26 June 2009 (GMT)

"Not to be confused with Visual thinking"
I put the above note at the top of the article because it seems to me that the two articles are on separate subjects, in spite of some overlaps in naming. Is that correct? (I'm asking because I know nothing about these subjects.)--A bit iffy (talk) 10:24, 10 March 2010 (UTC)


 * I was surprised to see this notice. And I do not believe you are correct. They are indeed very much related. Spatial thinking or spatial visualization ability is a more specific topic than visual thinking. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.31.237.239 (talk) 05:59, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

Redirect proposal
I propose that Spatial-temporal reasoning (in psychology) is redirected to Spatial visualization ability, for two reasons:
 * The section is almost empty, there is nothing in those few lines that is not also in this article:
 * Spatial-temporal reasoning is a part of spatial visualization ability; so if somebody would write more on spatial-temporal reasoning, it is better to do it as a part of this article.  Lova Falk     talk   10:27, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

Inline citation problem
There is a problem with the first inline citation.

It seems that the inline citation does not support the information being cited, or perhaps the inline citation is incorrectly placed. In either case, I do not have the skill nor the knowledge to do whatever correction is needed.--Dthomsen8 (talk) 03:46, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

Reference
I am a new user of Wikipedia, but I thought that this article may benefit from an added informational visual, as well as including more information in the article introduction to lay out more fully what the article covers. Let me know if you all think these are worthwhile suggestions!Readingrosco (talk) 03:08, 26 September 2023 (UTC)