"We need different kinds of minds," Temple Grandin says. “We need these different approaches to problem solving.” (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: Getty Images, Blue Tree Publishing) Are you ...

Four new portraits have gone up at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, showcasing this year’s recipients of the ...

Names and labels are difficult. Take this “3D Printed” water-cooling loop by [Visual Thinker] on YouTube. It undeniably uses ...

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 ...

Like many people with autism, Temple Grandin thinks in pictures. In her new book, “Visual Thinking,” Grandin writes that she sees the world “in a series of associated visual images.” She adds it’s ...

Interestingly, people good at verbal thinking often score about average on object and spatial thinking tests. Only those who excel at object or spatial thinking fare poorly on tests that demand other ...

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 ...

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 ...

Are you neat and tidy and learn best by reading books and listening? Or are you creative, maybe a little messy, enjoy things like puzzles or chess and prefer to learn through charts and diagrams? If ...

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 ...