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First volume to link the two research traditions of spatial ability and working memory through visuospatial processing
With contributions by leading, international academics in the fields of educational psychology, visuospatial processing, science learning, and similar areas
Focusses on diverse science fields, including the ones that normally fall out of scope
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
Visuospatial processing is key to learn and perform professionally in the domains of health and natural sciences. As such, there is accumulating research showing the importance of visuospatial processing for education in diverse health sciences (e.g., medicine, anatomy, surgery) and in many natural sciences (e.g., biology, chemistry, physics, geology). In general, visuospatial processing is treated separately as (a) spatial ability and (b) working memory with visuospatial stimuli. This book attempts to link these two research perspectives and present visuospatial processing as the cognitive activity of two components of working memory (mostly the visuospatial sketch pad, and also the central executive), which allows to perform in both spatial ability and working memory tasks.
Focusing on university education in the fields of health sciences and natural sciences, the chapters in this book describe the abilities of mental rotation, mental folding, spatial working memory, visual working memory, among others, and how different variables affect them. Some of these variables, thoroughly addressed in the book, are sex (gender), visualizations, interactivity, cognitive load, and embodiment. The book concludes with a chapter presenting VAR, a battery of computer-based tests to measure different tasks entailing visuospatial processing.
With contributions by top educational psychologists from around the globe, this book will be of interest to a broad array of readers across the disciplines.
Keywords
- Visuospatial processes in education
- Working memory and visuospatial processing
- Spatial ability and working memory
- Cognitive load theory
- Learning achievements and visuospatial processing
- Gender differences in visuospatial processing
- Visualizations and science learning
- Multimedia and visuospatial learning
- Embodied cognition and visuospatial processing
- Measuring visuospatial processing
Editors and Affiliations
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Center for Advanced Research in Education, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Juan C. Castro-Alonso
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Visuospatial Processing for Education in Health and Natural Sciences
Editors: Juan C. Castro-Alonso
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20969-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-20968-1Published: 15 August 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-20971-1Published: 16 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-20969-8Published: 05 August 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 229
Number of Illustrations: 37 illustrations in colour
Topics: Educational Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Science Education