"R. N. Shepard [1978] has argued that a number of highly original and significant creations of the human mind have been produced by a mode of thinking which was essentially nonverbal, involving internal representations which could best be described as images of a largely spatial, and often visual character. Shepard provides an impressive list of creative scholars whose most outstanding achievements have been the result of highly visual thinking: Einstein, James Clerk Maxwell, Michael Faraday, Hermann von Helmholtz, Francis Galton, and Friedrich A. Kekule are on the list as is the mathematician ."
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Ken Clements, "Visual imagery and school mathematics." For the learning of mathematics 2.2 (1981): p. 2
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Roger Shepard
Roger Newland Shepard (January 30, 1929 – May 30, 2022) was a cognitive scientist and author of the (1987). He is considered a father of research on spatial relations. He studied , and was an inventor of .
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