Spatial Thinkers
Eide Neurolearning Blog is one of my favorites. The Eides write articles about brain-based learning styles, problem-solving, parenting, and a lot more. On Monday they wrote an article called “Spatial thinkers - not visual and not verbal”. It says:
“Spatial thinkers are more common than most people think (in our clinic, this applies to many children of engineers, physicists, mathematicians, architects, and dyslexic kids in general), but though they may initially think of themselves as visual thinkers, when questioned carefully, they confess that their thinking is not actually pictoral. Rather, thought processing seems to involve space or kinesthetic / bodily sensations or associations. Ideas are located at different positions in space (or associated with the body), or bodily “feelings” give rise to intuitive leaps or non-verbal certainties. “
It’s so funny that I just had a talk with a friend during the weekend (a very knowledgeable, and smart computer professional) on his unusual skills to think “by hand”. A lot of times, he can do things by hand but cannot describe them with words. It’s as if his hand had thinking skill and memory. We were puzzled at the time, and now we know why: he is a spatial thinker.