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Definition of "visuospatial" []

  • Of or relating to visual perception of spatial relationships among objects: the visuospatial skills needed to complete a jigsaw puzzle. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "visuospatial" in a sentence
  • "Minor hemisphere dominance for certain visuospatial functions."
  • "When they returned, they either sat quietly for 10 minutes; played a videogame testing "visuospatial" skills (Tetris, in this case); or played a videogame testing general knowledge and memory (Pub Quiz)."
  • "To interfere with this type of visual processing we need to target what are known cognitively as 'visuospatial' resources"