People who don’t think visually often have a hard time imagining the mental lives of those who do. By thinking, I mean conscious planning, problem-solving, imagining, and reminiscing. Most mental ...

Interestingly, people good at verbal thinking often score about average on object and spatial thinking tests. Only those who excel at object or spatial thinking fare poorly on tests that demand other ...

Unfortunately, visual thinking is frequently seen in education as unsophisticated because it doesn’t conform to the dominant textual paradigm. This creates a natural handicap when it comes to ...

Temple Grandin has never stopped following—and driving—the research on what makes minds tick. In both professional and popular circles, she is the voice on visual thinking. Have you ever asked ...

Re “Society Is Failing Visual Thinkers, and That Hurts Us All,” by Temple Grandin (Opinion guest essay, Jan. 12): As a retired associate professor of the visual arts, I applaud this essay. Because the ...

Jonathan Flombaum brings up a scene re-enacted in hardware stores every weekend. Someone confidently selects a can of touch-up paint for a hallway or bedroom wall, returns home— and finds it doesn't ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. If you’ve heard it once, you’ve probably heard it a thousand times: “A picture is worth a thousand words.” Recent research suggests that ...

Our educational system elevates verbal and logico-mathematical intelligences though many disciplines involve a high-degree of visual-spatial skills. While art, architecture, design, fashion and ...

Semioticians classify signs or sign systems in relation to the way they are transmitted. To illuminate one way semioticians look at things, let us peek at stage and film semiotics, which study the ...