What is Visual spatial reasoning?

Visual Spatial Reasoning is the ability to visualize and understand spatial relations among objects. Visual Spatial Reasoning is the kind of thinking that Nobel Laureate Albert Einstein may have used to imagine himself chasing a beam of light in his famous thought experiment – An experiment that is said to have played a significant role in his development of the theory of special relativity. It is also what we use to read maps, architects use to design buildings or doctors use to understand Brain MRI scans by visualizing the 3-D structure of the brain from the 2-D visual images produced by the MRI machine. From Architecture to Science, Engineering to Computers, visual spatial reasoning plays a critical role in our lives.

Why train Visual spatial reasoning?

Research has shown that visual spatial skills are an excellent predictor of achievement in science, engineering, mathematics and in creative areas like painting, photography and sculpting. Even more importantly, research suggests that visual spatial reasoning can be improved. At Cognosia, we believe games are a great way to make kids practise visual spatial reasoning. Our Visual Spatial games have been developed to get kids interested in visual spatial thinking.