This type of experiential, addictive learning improves decision-making skills and increases the processing speed and spatial skills of the brain.

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The key: As you play, you're working on your memory, strategy, and spatial skills--all required for improving brain health--at the same time.

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Supposedly resulting from abnormal antenatal exposure to hormones, this cluster includes maleness, homosexuality, left-handedness, poor visual-spatial skills, immune disorders, and perhaps also language-learning talent.

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Their maths, reading and spatial skills were also tested.

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Beginning this year, the city will rely heavily on a test that mostly assesses spatial thinking skills and uses almost no words or language.

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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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My spatial reasoning skills have never been sharper.

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To combine building spatial and verbal skills for the age 6 and over set, you have GoldieBlox, a book series with building sets.

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Combined with the male special skills and strengths of logic, spatial reasoning and prioritisation ranking we could reach remarkable tech frontiers for our species.

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But scientific studies have taken things one step further and shown that as cab drivers hone their skills, their hippocampus -- the part of the brain that deals with spatial memory and navigation -- gradually gets bigger.

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