Re: OT: Spatial thinking (WAS: Re: Letf / Right, was Re: Count and mass nouns)
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 21, 2004, 20:38 |
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On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 09:01:13PM +0100, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> 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.
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
. . .")
And my wife has to stop and think before being able to identify left
and right, although east/west present no problem.
-Mark
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