spatial awareness
Knowing where things are
Spatial awareness is the ability to perceive and understand the positions of objects in relation to oneself and to each other.
It involves knowing where your body is in space, how much room you have to move, and how objects are arranged around you.
The skill matters in activities from parallel parking to sports to surgery: Her spatial awareness made her an excellent goalkeeper.
Children develop spatial awareness gradually; some people have notably more or less of it than others.
- agilityQuickness and ease
- balanceSteadiness or amount owed
- proprioceptionBody's spatial self-awareness
- vestibularOf the balance organ
- inner earBalance and hearing center
coordination · navigation · spatial reasoning · mental map · orientation · gross motor skills · motion detection · mental mapping · haptic feedback · depth perception · visual perception · tactile feedback · wayfinding · sense of direction · peripheral vision · field of view · blind spot · proximity
- developmentgrowth, progress, advancement, expansion, improvement
- elementary schoolclassroom, student, first grade teacher, reading skills, teacher
- movementwalk, move, go, run, jump
- child developmentbaby, toddler, newborn, infancy, milestones
- cognitionthinking, reasoning, thought, cognition, remembering
- awarenessalertness, attention, cognizance, conscious, attentiveness
spatial awarenessdisorientation
Loss of spatial awareness
confusion · vertigo · lost · bewilderment · dizziness