Emily Farran received funding from the Leverhulme Trust, the Economic and Social Research Council, the British Academy and the Centre for Educational Neuroscience to carry out research discussed in ...

Analysis: Developing your spatial ability has been shown to have a positive effect on performance in maths and other STEM-related subjects You have probably seen a scene like this somewhere at some ...

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Martin Doherty receives funding from the British Academy. At the age of about four, children reach important milestones in brain development. One of these is a leap forward in understanding others’ ...

In the first of this four-part series, Professor Emily Farran, Catherine Gripton, Sue Gifford and Alison Borthwick consider the spatial possibilities of outdoor play Understanding how objects, ...

Proficiency in early math skills lays the groundwork for more advanced mathematical abilities, and socioeconomic disparities in these skills are apparent even before children begin formal schooling (e ...

It's probably fair to say that we don't spend much time thinking about the way we view the world around us. But some scientists conduct detailed studies of how accurately we judge space – our spatial ...

It's been debated for decades, but now researchers at the University of York and University College London have suggested that left-handedness is not linked to better spatial skills. By asking ...