Shannon Rosbotham is a PhD candidate studying the intersection of developmental cognitive psychology and neuroscience.

The disparity of success in STEM between students from high and low socioeconomic backgrounds is a significant educational concern. Research in STEM education has shown that spatial skills play a role ...

Qualitative spatial reasoning is a field concerned with describing and inferring the relationships between spatial entities using symbolic representations rather than precise numerical coordinates. At ...

The way parents interact with their children during playtime strongly influences the development of spatial skills—a predictor of success in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) ...

It's been debated for decades, but now researchers at the University of York and University College London have suggested that left-handedness is not linked to better spatial skills. By asking ...