What is "visual-spatial" intelligence?

What is "visual-spatial" intelligence?

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Visual-spatial intelligence is the ability to organize information that we receive through visual stimuli. The brain makes representations of things that we see. The ability for us to look at a picture, for example, of a three-dimensional object, which the picture is really a two-dimensional object, but we're still able to count how many faces are on a pyramid, for example, or a cube, because we can mentally represent those shapes and those forms. The ability to do this is referred to as visual-spatial ability.