Similarly, people who excel at packing odd shaped objects in way that maximizes the use of storage space are able to do this because they have developed complex spatial reasoning skills.

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People rely on their spatial knowledge to build many other more complex or abstract representations including time, number, musical pitch, kinship relations, morality and emotions.

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Better spatial visualization is a must for dozens of professions: surgeons training for arthroscopic procedures, drug researchers modeling how complex proteins fold in upon themselves, petroleum geologists mapping miles-deep oilfields.

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