Sentences with phrase «how spatial abilities»

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Using a statistical technique known as graph theory, Michele Crist, Steven Knick, and Steven Hanser of the U.S. Geological Survey examined how the spatial arrangement of priority areas might affect their ability to function as an interconnected network of reserves.

Recently, some researchers have proposed that in some cases, dyscalculia may arise not from a «core deficit» in the ability to compare quantities, but instead from an «access deficit» — a problem in how the brain links perceptions of quantity to number symbols such as Arabic numerals, or in how it maps numbers onto verbal or spatial processes.

To test whether the hippocampus could actually form spatial maps using only visual landmarks, Mehta's team devised a noninvasive virtual reality environment and studied how the hippocampal neurons in the brains of rats reacted in the virtual world without the ability to use smells and sounds as cues.

Visual / spatial is the ability to hear or read a word and capture how you see it through sensory to remember it.

All groups who exercised saw some benefit, and those who exercised more saw more benefits, particularly in improved visual - spatial processing — the ability to perceive where objects are in space and how far apart they are from each other.

«Visual - spatial ability — how we understand and manipulate what we see — is fundamental to almost all school learning.

However, as Family Picture, a number of his self - portraits, and later works, such as the triptych Departure (1932 — 33) and Paris Society (1925, 1931) show, Beckmann's canvases don't just present the viewer with a feast of social malaise, they also attest to spatial dislocation, implying how the horrors of Europe's early - 20th century distort one's ability to see the world.

Our second aim is to construct an analytic model to determine how sex, navigational ability, spatial anxiety, and mobility are related in this population.