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visuospatial

visuospatial

1 8.1
Able to see and understand shapes and where things are
  • adjective
  • /ˌvɪʒuːoʊˈspeɪʃəl/
  • Specialized
translation icon : visoespacial
  • Children often develop visuospatial skills during play as they manipulate blocks and puzzles.
  • visuospatial memory
  • visuospatial sketchpad
  • visuospatial processing

Examples

  • Research suggests that phonological working memory and visuospatial working memory are separate entities and involve different neurological channels.

    Academic text (2004)
  • The architect's design skills require strong visuospatial abilities to create functional spaces.

  • The latter showed less efficient visuospatial processes than the former did.

    Academic text (2007)
  • Older adults, on average, should therefore have more trouble remembering visuospatial materials, as opposed to meaningful verbal materials, than younger people do.

    Academic text (1997)
  • There is no substitution for continued authentic instrumental experiences to develop visuospatial skills and higher cognitive processes such as processing speed.

    Academic text (2015)
  • Data derived from several studies support an important relationship between the specialized visuospatial capacities of the RH and mathematical ability.

    Academic text (2008)
  • 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.

    Academic text (2012)
  • Another area of weakness among CHL was their performance on the Corsi span task, used to assess visuospatial short-term memory.

    Academic text (2012)
  • 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.

    Academic text (2012)
  • Baddeley and Hitch suggested a tripartite system of a visuospatial sketch pad, a central executive, and a phonological loop.

    Academic text (2010)

How Visuospatial

visuospatial
  • Specialized
1 8.1
figural blindness
  • Specialized
9.9

Surface Forms

visuospatial positive

Morphology

visuospatial = visual + spatial (transparent) = visuo + spatial

Meaning is directly derived from the two components 'visual' and 'spatial', so learners knowing those terms can infer the combined meaning.

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.