Revising the Visualizer-Verbalizer Dimension: Evidence for Two Types of Visualizers

By Maria Kozhevnikov, Mary Hegarty, Richard E. Mayer. 2002

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Subfields: Automotive Engineering, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Spatial Visualization, Visual Imagery, and Mathematical Problem Solving of Students With Varying Abilities (2006, background): “(Hegarty & Kozhevnikov, 1999; Kozhevnikov et al., 2002) have suggested that two different types of visual images exist: visual imagery and spatial imagery.”
Spatial Thinking by Young Children: Neurologic Evidence for Early Development and “Educability” (2007, neutral): “One byproduct of these discoveries has been a number of articles that call for a revision of earlier concepts about brain function (e.g., Kozhevnikov et al. 2002) Parallel research by child psychologists and educational specialists tends to reinforce one main conclusion of the neuroscientists: the…”
Mechanical reasoning by mental simulation. (2004, background): “Use of spatial imagery that encodes only essential spatial relations and omits visual details is associated with more success in verbal reasoning [39] and problem solving in physics [ 40 ], mathematics [41], and chess [42].”
The malleability of spatial skills: a meta-analysis of training studies. (2013, background): “For example, Kozhevnikov, Hegarty , and Mayer (2002) and Kozhevnikov, Kosslyn, and Shephard (2005) found that object visualizers (who excel at intrinsic–static skills in our terminology) are quite distinct from spatial visualizers (who excel at intrinsic– dynamic skills).”
The new object‐spatial‐verbal cognitive style model: Theory and measurement (2009, background): “Spatial imagery skills, such as spatial visualization of abstract schematic representations and spatial transformation of complex three-dimensional forms are important in physics, chemistry, engineering and other fields of natural sciences (e.g. Casey et al., 1990; Ferguson, 1977; Kozhevnikov et al.”
Cognitive styles in the context of modern psychology: toward an integrated framework of cognitive style. (2007, background): “Kozhevnikov et al. (2002, 2005) rejected the idea that visual–verbal cognitive style can be characterized as variation along a single dimension.”
Object-Spatial Imagery: A New Self-Report Imagery Questionnaire (2006, neutral): “…spatial imagery subsystems (Levine et al., 1985; Farah et al., 1988; Kosslyn et al., 2001) and consistent with individual differences research that has provided evidence for two types, object and spatial, of imagers (Kozhevnikov & Kosslyn, 2000; Kozhevnikov et al., 2002; Kozhevnikov et al., 2005).”
Spatial and visual working memory ability in children with difficulties in arithmetic word problem solving (2010, background): “In addition, Hegarty and Kozhevnikov (1999; see also Kozhevnikov, Hegarty, & Mayer, 2002 ) demonstrated that use of schematic spatial representations was associated with success in mathematical problem solving, whereas use of pictorial representations was negatively correlated with success.”