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LindaH People who are generally considered to have highly developed spatial intelligence include sailors, engineers, surgeons, sculptors, and painters (Gardner, 1983). Their spatial intelligence involves the ability to perceive the visual world accurately. However, these abilities are not identical, and hence individuals may be good at visual perception while having little ability to draw or imagine. Nonetheless, just as rhythm and pitch work together in music, the following capacities typically occur together in the spatial realm, operating as a family and reinforcing one another. Spatial intelligence (Gardner, 1983) involves the ability to:
- Form a mental model of a spatial world and maneuver and operate using that model
- Create mental imagery and then transform that imagery and re-create visual experiences in the absence of relevant physical stimuli
- Produce graphic likenesses of spatial information
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