The malleability of spatial skills: a meta-analysis of training studies.

By David H. Uttal, Nathaniel Meadow, Elizabeth Tipton, L. L. Hand, A. R. Alden, Christopher Warren, Nora S. Newcombe. Psychological bulletin, 2013

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Subfields: Automotive Engineering, Geography, Planning and Development

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A Heuristic Framework of Spatial Ability: a Review and Synthesis of Spatial Factor Literature to Support its Translation into STEM Education (2018, neutral): “Specifically, they are associated with the mental manipulation of spatial information and often referred to as spatial skills (Uttal et al. 2013).”
Training early visuo-spatial abilities: A controlled classroom-based intervention study (2019, background): “Nevertheless, while the effectiveness of visuo-spatial trainings could be highlighted in adults, adolescents, and school-aged children (see Uttal et al., 2012), empirical evidence on the effects of a visuo-spatial training in young children is extremely scarce.”
Mental Rotation With Tangible Three-Dimensional Objects: A New Measure Sensitive to Developmental Differences in 4- to 8-Year-Old Children (2015, background): “Given the close relationship between spatial thinking and performance in math and science, coupled with new evidence that spatial thinking is malleable (Uttal et al., 2013), there is an increasing need for interventions aimed at supporting and enriching these important skills (NCTM, 2006; NRC, 2006;”
Evaluating Geoscience Students' Spatial Thinking Skills in a Multi-Institutional Classroom Study (2014, background): “, Vandenburg and Kuse 1978; Jansen and Heil, 2010), learning effects on mental rotation (e.g., Newcombe et al., 1983; Uttal et al., 2013), and the neural basis of mental rotation (e.”
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Exploring and Enhancing Spatial Thinking (2013, background): “See Figure 1 for examples of the spatial tests used in Wai et al. (2009). What accounts for this predictive correlation? One factor is probably that STEM fields directly call on these 484756 CDPXXX10.”
Gender Differences in Spatial Ability: Implications for STEM Education and Approaches to Reducing the Gender Gap for Parents and Educators (2017, background): “To address the question of whether training interventions show generalisability to other types of spatial tasks, Uttal et al. (2013) compared studies that used very similar measures of spatial performance to that covered in training with studies that employed substantially different types of…”