It IS possible to decode IKEA instructions, claim scientists: Spatial skills like reading maps and 3D design can be learned

Spatial skills can be learned by people of any age
Practice helps – but 3D videogames are also useful

Puzzle solved? Spatial skills – like reading maps and assembling Ikea chests of drawers – are a skill that can be learned

Spatial skills – like reading maps and assembling Ikea chests of drawers – are a skill that can be learned.

Previously, it had been believed that some spatial skills couldn’t be trained.

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