Science news articles about 'visuospatial skills'

... University, a team of researchers investigated the effects of different styles of Buddhist meditation on visuospatial skills. The researchers focused on two styles of meditation: Deity Yoga (DY) and ...

Cognitive abilities other than memory, including visuospatial skills needed to perceive relationships between objects, may decline years prior to a clinical diagnosis in patients with Alzheimer's ...

... those that typify the far more common syndrome called autism, in which mathematical and visuospatial skills may be not only unimpaired but sometimes pronouncedly enhanced, while functions such as eye ...

... , including general cognitive ability, attention, memory, and various verbal, motor and visuospatial skills. Among their main findings: In the very first episode of schizophrenia, cognitive problems ...

... on one foot) and timed movements (repetitive and patterned movements). Lastly, the children's visuospatial skills were assessed using the Block Design test in which they were timed to reconstruct ...