Spatial intelligence

Spatial intelligence corresponds to one of the eight intelligences of the model proposed by Howard Gardner in the theory of multiple intelligences.

Definition

This type of intelligence is related to the individual's ability to deal with aspects such as color, line, shape, figure, space, and the relationship that exists between them. It is also the ability of a person to process information in three dimensions. People with a marked spatial tendency tend to think about images and photographs, visualize them, design them or draw them. It is related to the mental representation of two-dimensional and three-dimensional spaces and with the resolution of spatial problems, whether real or imaginary. Besides that it is very useful for people with disabilities.

Characteristics of spatial intelligence

• Find yourself on maps more easily.
• To represent something graphically.
• Perceive reality, appreciating sizes, directions and spatial relationships.
• Play mentally objects that have been observed.
• Recognize the same object in different circumstances. The image is so fixed that the individual is able to identify it, regardless of the place, position or situation in which the object is found.
• Anticipate to the consequences of spatial changes, and advance and imagine or assume how an object that suffers some kind of change can vary.
• Describe coincidences or similarities between objects that look different, identify common aspects or differences in objects around an individual.

Spatial intelligence is the intelligence of architects, pilots, navigators, chess players, surgeons, painters, sculptors, engineers, etc.

Sight is one of the most important senses when it comes to learning about our environment, but people born blind can also use spatial intelligence thanks to information about the environment that comes to them through other senses.