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2020

• Sue Hespos’ Infant Cognition Lab to Premiere on Netflix
• Forgetting helps children understand how to use symbols

2019

• Integrating Spatial Thinking with Marine Life Learning
• The Use of Qualitative Methods in Spatial Research
• Resource Highlight: Test of Spatial Ability (TOSA)
• In Press: Defining and Measuring the Influences of GIS-Based Instruction on Students’ STEM-Relevant Reasoning
• Jue Wu Studies Women-in-Technology Groups: The Importance of Community for STEM Students
• Spatial Reasoning and Play-based Digital Apps for Preschool Children
• Spotlight Feature on Graduate Student Naomi Polinsky: Bridging Psychological and Learning Sciences with mBots
• Sketching tools and processes, and spatial thinking can help students in STEM
• Discover the history and science of unit measurement
• UNED to host talks on spatial cognition in Spain
• Doctoral candidate Yanning Yu uses the game of Go to study spatial thinking
• Three secrets for working across disciplines from interdisciplinary scientist & Dev Sci Linzer David Uttal
• Signing Avatars & Immersive Learning (SAIL) Awarded Facilitator’s Choice Award by the STEM for All Showcase
• The Chicago GeoSpatial Semester Project by Northwestern SILC Members are part of the 2019 NSF’s STEM for All Video Showcase to Highlight Innovations in STEM Education
• DevSci Neurodevelopmental Core Ribbon Cutting with Director David Uttal
• Spatial learning partnership with University of Canberra 
• The Geospatial Semester: Concurrent Enrollment in Geospatial Technologies
• Navigation and the developing brain
• Five-month-old infants have expectations for the accumulation of nonsolid substances 
• Qualitative Representations: How People Reason and Learn about the Continuous World
• Wiley Society 5th most popular article: The Development of Children’s Gender-Science Stereotypes: A Meta-analysis of 5 Decades of U.S. Draw-A-Scientist Studies 

2018

• Comparison within pairs promotes analogical abstraction in three-month-olds
• LAi4D Designer Widget

• Psychological Research May Offer a Route to Greener Travel

• Neighborhoods influence Chicagoans’ transportation decisions 
• Teachers’ Spatial Learning Skills Across Disciplines and Education Levels

• Why spatial reasoning matters for education policy: Remarks from Professors Jonathan Wai and David Uttal

• A novel approach to studying anatomy

• Researchers Adapt Minecraft to Teach Spatial Reasoning

• Qualitative Representations: How People Reason and Learn about the Continuous World
• Five-month-old infants have expectations for the accumulation of nonsolid substances

2017

• Helping Students Learn by Sketching
• Making Sense of Space: Distributed Spatial Sensemaking in a Middle School Summer Engineering Camp

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