Working with and living in spatially complex environments may help delay cognitive decline, though more research is needed.
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Access to the internet in South Africa’s economic powerhouse, Gauteng, is marked by inequalities.
While people have wondered about déjà vu for a long time, only recently have scientists started experimentally investigating what might trigger it.
Although some parents may be reluctant to let their children explore their surroundings alone, allowing kids to wander can help build their sense of direction.
The child support grant, as a policy instrument, cannot work alone in ensuring that young people thrive and succeed.
It’s never too early for children to develop their spatial skills, vital if they want to one day design buildings, put up flat-pack furniture or cut a birthday cake. Here’s how you can help at home.
South Africa’s governing ANC has always seen economic growth as the driving force for change. This was wishful thinking as the damage done by apartheid will take far more to undo.
People in visually creative professions have their own way of seeing the world.
Maboneng in Johannesburg represents one strand of the type of urban “development” that’s advocated for by the proponents of “global cities”.
Human brain cells are able to include spatial information in their memories, which enables people to recall experiences that…
A stroll down the personal growth aisle of the bookstore tells us, among other things, Why Men Don’t Listen and Women Can’t Read Maps. The answer, as authors Alan and Barbara Pease delightedly inform their…
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Scientia Professor of Evolution, UNSW
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Research Associate, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, University of the Witwatersrand
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Assistant Professor, University of Canberra
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Professor of Urban Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Linguistics, Bangor University
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Professor of Economics and Public Finance, School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate professor Early Childhood and Primary Education, University of Canberra
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Professor of Cognitive Psychology, Colorado State University
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DSTI/NRF Research Chair in Welfare and Social Development, University of Johannesburg
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Postdoctoral Associate in Psychology, Rutgers University
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Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of Texas at San Antonio
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Researcher, Gauteng City-Region Observatory