Regarding visuospatial skills, we work with two important concepts:
- Spatial relations: the ability to mentally represent and handle objects in two dimensions.
- Spatial visualization: the ability to mentally represent and manipulate objects in three dimensions.
What are visuospatial skills for?
Visuospatial skills are very useful in our daily lives. Thanks to them we can judge the distance between two objects, which can be very helpful, for example, when parking, to control the space between our car and the surrounding obstacles. We also use visuospatial abilities when we imagine a place or a direction someone is telling us about, or when we need to mentally rotate objects to know how they will fit before doing it.
NeuronUP exercises to rehabilitate visuospatial skills
Two examples of spatial relations exercises. The first exercise involves calculating the exact moment when an element (the ball) passes through a specific point. In the second exercise we show a spatial visualization activity that involves working out how a set of cubes would look after moving some of them.
