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What is "visual-spatial" What is "visual-spatial" intelligence?intelligence?

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Visual-Spatial intelligenceVisual-Spatial intelligenceDefinition: Visual-Spatial intelligence refers

to the ancient hunter-gatherer ability to represent the outer world internally in your

mind. It's the ability to hold the world visually in your mind "the way a sailor or pilot

navigates the large spatial world, or the way a chess player or sculptor represents a more

circumscribed spatial world". It gives you the ability to know where you are in space. If you find it easy to visualise things as though you

were an observer taking up different positions, like a fly-on-the-wall, then you are strong in

this intelligence. Spatial intelligence predominates in the arts and in science.

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Visual-Spatial Intelligence is defined as having Visual-Spatial Intelligence is defined as having the following criteria: the following criteria:

    • sensitivity to the relationship between line, color, shape, space, and form.

• an ability to manipulate and mentally rotate objects.• the capacity to create a graphic likeness of a real

object.• the ability to understand the components of visual

and spatial displays within the graphic arts.• Graphic artists, architects, and map-makers are

examples of spatially intelligent jobs.

Visual Spatial Intelligence traits:Visual Spatial Intelligence traits:

• likes art, drawing, sculpture, painting • good at directions, reading maps • can visualize or imagine vividly • remembers in pictures (photographic

memory) • appreciates colors • uses metaphor

often found doodling speaks fast thinks in pictures (...worth a thousand words) tends to look at the "big picture" likes to watch the video when listening to songs uses language like "it looks good to me" or "I see what you mean!"

• People who excel at reading maps, playing chess, drawing diagrams and illustrations, repairing machinery, understanding geometry, and completing jigsaw puzzles are spatially intelligent

Exercises to strengthen visual-spatial Exercises to strengthen visual-spatial intelligence:intelligence:

• Do mind- mappinghttp://www.imindmap.com/videos/rules%20of%20MM.aspx• visualize scenarios and goals you want to attain • create and watch videos! • take photographs • practice orienteering with maps • use visual posters, flash cards and symbols • highlight info with color • use computer aided graphics

Exercises to strengthen visual-spatial Exercises to strengthen visual-spatial intelligence cont’intelligence cont’

• merge art with other subjects • feel free to doodle when studying or thinking • make diagrams and maps • estimate distances • imagine yourself going through different buildings • imagine looking at yourself from above, below,

very close up, far away • Do image streaming • visualize geometric structures, rotate them in your

mind, sit inside them, give them colors

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