visuospatial
adjective
vi·suo·spa·tial
ˌvi-zhə-wō-ˈspā-shəl 
: of, relating to, or being thought processes that involve visual and spatial awareness
visuospatial problem solving
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It's also been found that taxing your memory resources with a concurrent visuospatial task reduces the vividness and emotional impact of mental imagery – such as traumatic flashbacks.
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New Atlas, 23 Sep. 2024
Aligning with Barth’s arguments, some paleoanthropologists have suggested that our ancestor hominins had relatively well-developed and integrated visuospatial and sensorimotor systems.
—Chip Colwell, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
Trauma flashbacks are sensory-perceptual, visuospatial mental images.
—Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 6 Dec. 2011
According to the study, participants underwent various cognitive tests at age 69, testing for attention and orientation, verbal fluency, memory, language, and visuospatial.
—Byalexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 21 Feb. 2023
Doing jigsaw puzzles taps into the visuospatial cognitive processes, including episodic memory and working memory.
—Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2022
The results are consistent with EI theory, showing that craving is reduced by loading the visuospatial sketchpad of working memory but not by loading the phonological loop.
—Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2012
This makes sense, as the right hemisphere of the brain is specialized for visuospatial processing and also plays a significant role in processing the emotions that art elicits.
—Brianna Randall, Discover Magazine, 10 Apr. 2021
In contrast, surgeons—who on average spend 3,963 hours of training honing a complex motor and visuospatial skill may naturally focus more on the procedural task at hand rather than the factors contributing to their patient’s condition.
—Ashley Andreou, Scientific American, 26 May 2022
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New Atlas, 23 Sep. 2024
Aligning with Barth’s arguments, some paleoanthropologists have suggested that our ancestor hominins had relatively well-developed and integrated visuospatial and sensorimotor systems.
—Chip Colwell, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
Trauma flashbacks are sensory-perceptual, visuospatial mental images.
—Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 6 Dec. 2011
According to the study, participants underwent various cognitive tests at age 69, testing for attention and orientation, verbal fluency, memory, language, and visuospatial.
—Byalexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 21 Feb. 2023
Doing jigsaw puzzles taps into the visuospatial cognitive processes, including episodic memory and working memory.
—Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2022
The results are consistent with EI theory, showing that craving is reduced by loading the visuospatial sketchpad of working memory but not by loading the phonological loop.
—Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2012
This makes sense, as the right hemisphere of the brain is specialized for visuospatial processing and also plays a significant role in processing the emotions that art elicits.
—Brianna Randall, Discover Magazine, 10 Apr. 2021
In contrast, surgeons—who on average spend 3,963 hours of training honing a complex motor and visuospatial skill may naturally focus more on the procedural task at hand rather than the factors contributing to their patient’s condition.
—Ashley Andreou, Scientific American, 26 May 2022
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visuospatial
adjective
vi·suo·spa·tial
-ˈspā-shəl
: of, relating to, or being thought processes that involve visual and spatial awareness
visuospatial problem solving
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