Re: OT: Spatial thinking (WAS: Re: Letf / Right, was Re: Count and mass nouns)

Mark J. Reed wrote:

>On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 09:01:13PM +0100, Andreas Johansson wrote:
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>>What I'd like to know is if there any much data on this, and in particular if the "mental map"
>>thing is rare, or my family (they all claim not to be able to do it) just happens to be
>>poorly equipped in that area.
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>I'd say that level of visualization ability is extremely rare indeed.
>Personally, I can't visualize much of anything at all.  I can navigate
>well, but I have to do so by logical deduction ("if that's north, than
>that over there must be east, and I know that X is east of Y, therefore
>. . .")
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>And my wife has to stop and think before being able to identify left
>and right, although east/west present no problem.
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I confuse left and right, but I have no problem visualising a fairly
accurate map of Europe.  Apart precisely where the towns are.  I just
don't know that.  Though I could point you to where most major cities in
Germany and France(and, of course, the UK) were.

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