People who don’t think visually often have a hard time imagining the mental lives of those who do. By thinking, I mean conscious planning, problem-solving, imagining, and reminiscing. Most mental ...

Unfortunately, visual thinking is frequently seen in education as unsophisticated because it doesn’t conform to the dominant textual paradigm. This creates a natural handicap when it comes to ...

Jonathan Flombaum brings up a scene re-enacted in hardware stores every weekend. Someone confidently selects a can of touch-up paint for a hallway or bedroom wall, returns home— and finds it doesn't ...

Dan Roam believes we are all capable of using visual thinking to solve complex problems. His first book, The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas With Pictures, helped ignite a ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. If you’ve heard it once, you’ve probably heard it a thousand times: “A picture is worth a thousand words.” Recent research suggests that ...

We live in a language-dominated world that tends to sideline visual thinkers, screening them out at school and passing over them in the workplace - even though visual thinkers constitute a far greater ...

Temple Grandin has never stopped following—and driving—the research on what makes minds tick. In both professional and popular circles, she is the voice on visual thinking. Have you ever asked ...

Humans are born to do math, and they have the brain infrastructure to prove it—including a cluster of specialized nerve cells for processing numbers. Despite this dedicated cluster, mathematical ...