Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

Spatial reasoning is an inherent aspect of everyday life. For example, spatial reasoning supports young children playing with blocks, older children learning about positioning on a sports field, and adults navigating where they need to go. Spatial reasoning is also a critical aspect of STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics, e.g., Wai, Lubinski, & Benbow, 2009). For example, chemists imagine molecules rotating to compare structure, and physicists reason about the influence of invisible forces on magnetic fields.