Wanted: A Concise List of Neurologically Defensible and Assessable Spatial Thinking Skills

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dc.contributor.authorGersmehl, Philip J.
dc.contributor.authorGersmehl, Carol A.
dc.date.accessioned2023-12-05T21:11:28Z
dc.date.available2023-12-05T21:11:28Z
dc.date.issued2006
dc.description.abstractRecent neuroscientific research seems to indicate that the human brain has several distinct “regions” that are structured to do particular kinds of spatial thinking. A review of more than 900 research studies provides the foundation for a list of eight distinct modes of spatial thinking at geographic (as opposed to personal or astronomical) scales. This article summarizes the neuroscientific evidence for the analytical processes of comparing places, assessing influence on neighboring areas, classifying places into regions, interpreting spatial hierarchies, visualizing spatial transitions, identifying analogous locations (e.g., on other continents), and discerning spatial patterns and pattern associations. This concise list could serve as a neurologically defensible outline for a “taxonomy” of spatial thinking skills, which in turn could provide a more solid foundation for assessment (and thus help guide the development of better teaching materials and more effective training of teachers to use those materials).
dc.description.departmentGeography and Environmental Studies
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dc.format.extent34 pages
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dc.identifier.citationGersmehl, P.J. & Gersmehl, C.A. (2006). Wanted: A concise list of neurologically defensible and assessable spatial thinking skills. Research in Geographic Education, 8, pp. 5-38.
dc.identifier.issn1529-0085
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10877/17325
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherThe Grosvenor Center for Geographic Education
dc.sourceResearch in Geographic Education, 2006, Vol. 8, pp. 5-38.
dc.subjectgeography
dc.subjectspatial
dc.subjectcognition
dc.subjectneuroscience
dc.subjectlocation
dc.subjectaura
dc.subjectbuggers
dc.subjectregions
dc.subjecthierarchy
dc.subjecttransitions
dc.subjectanalogy
dc.subjectpatterns
dc.subjectassociations
dc.subjectmovements
dc.subjectdiffusion
dc.subjectspatial models
dc.subjectassessments
dc.titleWanted: A Concise List of Neurologically Defensible and Assessable Spatial Thinking Skills
dc.typeArticle

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