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Thinking with images plays a central role in scientific creativity and communication but is neglected in science classrooms. This article reviews the fundamental role of imagery in science and technology and our current knowledge of visual-spatial cognition. A novel analogic and thematic organization of images and visualization within science and technology is proposed that can help in the generation and evaluation of classroom activities and materials, and serve as a focus for professional development programs in visual-spatial thinking for science teachers. Visual-spatial thinking includes vision-using the eyes to identify, locate, and think about objects and ourselves in the world, and imagery-the formation, inspection, transformation, and maintenance of images in the "mind's eye" in the absence of a visual stimulus. A spatial image preserves relationships among a complex set of ideas as a single chunk in working memory, increasing the amount of information that can be maintained in consciousness at a given moment. Vision and imagery are fundamental cognitive processes using specialized pathways in the brain and rely on our memory of prior experience. Visual-spatial thinking dev

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Author

James H. Mathewson

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); Wiley-Liss Inc.; John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0097-0352)

Published

1999

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences