The complaint alleges that by pushing law schools to use the Law School Admission Test ( LSAT ) in its accreditation rules, the ABA imposes an inequitable test requiring " spatial reasoning and the ability to diagram " that discriminates against blind and visually impaired students.
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Beyond the curiosity of the finding, it opens up a realm of animal experiments that could lead scientists to understand the brain mechanisms that underlie both music perception and spatial reasoning _ a cognitive ability involved in such diverse fields as mathematics, architecture, visual arts, and navigation.
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Also, chess uses skills ( i . e . abstract geometric / spatial reasoning ) which men tend to do better at ( while women tend to do better at language skills etc .-- obviously with many individual exceptions to such generalizations ) . . . talk ) 22 : 18, 10 September 2012 ( UTC)
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According to the report, written by Lois Hetland, a cognitive psychologist at Project Zero, a research organization co-directed by Howard Gardner at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, something happens to young children when they are given keyboard lessons for several months or years : while the instruction lasts, and for up to two years afterward, the children's performance on spatial reasoning tests improves.
