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Visual reasoning

Visual reasoning is the process of manipulating one's mental image of an object in order to reach a certain conclusion – for example, mentally constructing a piece of machinery to experiment with different mechanisms. In a frequently cited paper in the journal Science and a later book, Eugene S. Ferguson, a mechanical engineer and historian of…

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Visual reasoning → process of manipulating one's mental image of an object in order to reach a certain conclusion, widely used tool used in creating technological artefacts

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