visuospatial
- adjective
- /ˌvɪʒuːoʊˈspeɪʃəl/
- Specialized
- Children often develop visuospatial skills during play as they manipulate blocks and puzzles.
- visuospatial memory
- visuospatial sketchpad
- visuospatial processing
Examples
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Research suggests that phonological working memory and visuospatial working memory are separate entities and involve different neurological channels.
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The architect's design skills require strong visuospatial abilities to create functional spaces.
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The latter showed less efficient visuospatial processes than the former did.
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Older adults, on average, should therefore have more trouble remembering visuospatial materials, as opposed to meaningful verbal materials, than younger people do.
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There is no substitution for continued authentic instrumental experiences to develop visuospatial skills and higher cognitive processes such as processing speed.
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Data derived from several studies support an important relationship between the specialized visuospatial capacities of the RH and mathematical ability.
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In the latter study, 50% of the participants obtained a score more than 1 SD below the mean on a composite visuospatial short-term memory index.
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Another area of weakness among CHL was their performance on the Corsi span task, used to assess visuospatial short-term memory.
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Taken together, these results suggest that verbal working memory is impaired in children with language impairment and that visuospatial working memory may also be compromised for a large proportion of these children.
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Baddeley and Hitch suggested a tripartite system of a visuospatial sketch pad, a central executive, and a phonological loop.
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How Visuospatial
- Specialized
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Visuospatial combines visu- ('sight'), the same part you see in visual, and -spatial ('space'), which is like the common word space. So, visuospatial describes the skill of seeing and understanding where things are and how they fit in space.