In this respect students' educational program has been prepared according to modals of visual-spatial intelligence, musical-rhythmic intelligence, interpersonal-social intelligence, logical-mathematical intelligence.
Our growing use of screen-based media, she said, has strengthened visual-spatial intelligence, which can strengthen the ability to do jobs that involve keeping track of lots of rapidly changing signals, like piloting a plane or monitoring a patient during surgery.
A purely visual, spatial intelligence, such as he had, was not enough: if you really wanted people in this country to understand and respect your work, you had to be able to explain it in words, and to do so in the urbane, hyper-literate manner favoured by the British intelligentsia.
I wondered how these big remodeling changes might affect the children who regularly watch Sesame Street, so I reached out to Heather Lappi, a school psychologist working in Philadelphia, who said, "Giving children more opportunities to see and recognize sets can only foster their visual spatial intelligence and encourage a healthy imagination".
Theory Intelligence research (see Hunt 2000, p. 123) divides intelligence into two main levels: one including elementary information-processing actions and one including "more broadly defined capabilities, such as holding and accessing information in short- and long-term memory and, crystallized intelligence (Gc), fluid intelligence (Gf), and visual-spatial reasoning ability (Gv)".
Sixty-four participants from a Brazilian cohort were evaluated in IQ (Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence) and tasks of visual-spatial memory and visual-constructive skills through the Benton Visual Retention Test (BVRT) at school age.
At the age of three, they were given tests measuring the five main factors that are used to describe general "intelligence" -- knowledge, quantitative reasoning, visual-spatial processing, working memory and fluid reasoning.
The use in this study of the Neurotrax visual-spatial index based on the Block Design of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-3 32 as the reference test, as well as the use of a cognitive diagnosis based on a CGA by a multidisciplinary team, strengthens the value of our findings.
Neuro-psychological assessment consisted in administering subtests of a standard Wechsler measure of intelligence, and standardized tests of visual constructional skills (block design), visual-spatial structuring (Rey's geometric figures and Beery's Visual-Motor Integration test), visual-spatial attention (bell-crossing test), mental executive functions (Porteus Labyrinth and Tower of London test).
For example, in Dr Fan's and Dr Liberman's experiment the bilingual children had better executive function than the exposure ones, while all three groups had similar vocabularies, fluid intelligence (the ability to reason quickly and think abstractly) and non-verbal visual-spatial skills.
The test battery consisted of measures designed to assess intelligence, academic achievement, receptive and expressive language, phonological processing, memory, reading, spelling, visual-spatial ability, executive functioning, handedness, and social-emotional functioning (see Supplementary Table 9 for a full description of the tests used).
