Word: spatialization
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...Into this anxious mix have stepped hucksters and marketers who see worried parents as the most promising pigeons. Store shelves groan with new products purported to stimulate babies' brains in ways harried parents don't have time for. There are baby Mozart tapes said to enhance spatial reasoning and perhaps musical and artistic abilities too. There are black, white and red picture books, said to sharpen visual acuity. There are bilingual products said to train baby brains so they will be more receptive to multiple languages. The hard sell even follows kids to the one place you'd think they...
...greatest sources of misunderstanding surrounds the so-called Mozart effect. For years researchers have found that playing background music can improve the spatial skills of listeners, causing many laymen to conclude that creative skills can be boosted too. Last year Harvard University released a study called Project Zero that analyzed 50 years of research on this idea. The studies showed that college students who had listened to music performed better on paper-and-pencil spatial tests, but the effect lasted no more than 15 minutes and then faded away. There was no evidence that the listening improved brain power...
...Scientists hope that implanting the genetically altered tissue into the patient's right-side brain will improve - or at least guard against further degeneration of - the patient's memory, personality and spatial perception, all of which can be seriously affected by Alzheimer's disease...
...study indicated there is clear evidence that children who learn to make music have permanently-improved spatial skills--the ability to imagine objects and manipulate them mentally...
GENDER INEQUALITY By age 4 1/2, boys usually display better spatial skills and reasoning than girls of the same age--skills that are used later in life to do math and read maps. Researchers have long believed this difference is largely biological. But recent studies have shown that while biology does play a role, the nurture factor cannot be discounted. In daily play girls aren't encouraged as much as boys to engage in such spatially oriented activities as playing with blocks and puzzles...