We have gathered 185 distinct terms so far from
20 source documents in 7 disciplines. Many are near-synonyms or otherwise closely related, but we have purposely not merged them in order to maintain all definitional distinctions made by authors. The table below represents one possible classification. Some terms appear in multiple categories, italicized in their secondary location. This grouping builds upon and expands two frameworks discussed in the 2006 NRC report,
Learning to Think Spatially: ‘Elements of Spatial Thinking’ and ‘Component Tasks of Spatial Thinking.’ This work in progress is discussed and illustrated further in
a recent poster. The concept terms can also be viewed by source, by discipline and alphabetically using the menu options to the left.