Improving Visual Spatial Ability

[hiphopo...@yahoo.com]

Has anyone here improved their ability to visualize and or mentally rotate objects? Visual Spatial intelligence has always been a weakness of mine.

[Charles J. Daniels]

On Wednesday, December 31, 2014 11:13:08 AM UTC-8, hiphopo...@yahoo.com wrote:

Has anyone here improved their ability to visualize and or mentally rotate objects? Visual Spatial intelligence has always been a weakness of mine.

I've always had a pretty good ability to rotate things in my mind, but not perfect. I've had flashes where I impressed myself with how complex of a mental rotation, or how visually detailed it was. My recommendation is to meditate and do visualizations. Try to look at yourself from somewhere else in the room, so in your minds eye you are always looking exactly straight forward, not to the side (at first). I can do some really good (and sometimes uncomfortable) things. Like stare at the wall behind my head. Or up at my butt as though I'm the couch and the ceiling is straight forward. But even just "standing in the kitchen" and seeing myself on the couch "straight forward" is pretty cool. It's always a little hard for me to "turn my head and look around", which is what made me end up realizing how easy it was to just look forward but from different perspectives. Much easier for me. 

[whoisbambam]

i posted info on this years back

there is a book and cd combination produced by some professors....supposedly they did a study that showed better success for engineers that used it

also, Pontus posted some websites wherein you can practice it online

but the one i referred to supposedly demonstrated increase success with engineering students........so perhaps use both.

[rgpddt]

Hello,

I have no objective measures to prove this, but I do strongly feel that I have greatly improved my visuospatial abilities since beginning in university in 2009. I'm a highly visual-oriented person and sometimes I find it difficult to understand certain abstract concepts that are difficult to visualize. Therefore the question you presented is of great interest to me too.

One thing I can highly recommend is image-streaming. Brandon Woodson has written pretty interesting posts regarding this, just use the search tool.

What excites me the most at the moment is the application of image-streaming into mathematics (visualizing mathematical equations etc.) and concepts in physics. I feel like I've already made progress, such as more stable, vivid and complex images.

[jagunit]

http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-3D-Spatial-Visualization-Approach/dp/1401813895

check out the author--I believe she was the author of the study you are referring to

[whoisbambam]

yes, that is the book