The majority of parents with more than one child will likely tell you that their kids are pretty different, and that they saw these differences emerge relatively early. This individuality begins to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about psychology and education research and policy. Joni Lakin: Sometimes it's okay to recognize talent based on intuition ...

Males gain a slight advantage in mental-rotation performance during the first years of formal schooling, and this advantage slowly grows with age, tripling in size by the end of adolescence. It is ...

Spatial language and cognition describe an intricate interplay between the linguistic means with which we describe spatial relationships and the underlying cognitive processes that enable us to ...

Conventional testing can underestimate a student’s learning ability. Sociocultural barriers, test anxiety and differences in rates of brain development can skew results. In principle, neuroscience ...

It is well-established that, on average, men outperform women on a spatial reasoning task known as mental rotation -- imagining multi-dimensional objects from different points of view. Men are not, ...