This is precisely my experience. The interesting thing is that I recognize faces extremely well, perhaps even to the level of super-recognizer, contradicting the guy in the article. I also score really well on spatial reasoning tests and do extremely well at mathematical and abstract reasoning. I wonder if there&#x27;s a connection.<p>As far as the nature of my minds eye, I definitely don&#x27;t see pictures at all, but as you said &quot;feel&quot; abstract forms. When I imagine a familiar relative, I don&#x27;t see an image, but rather I&#x27;m reminded of important abstract features of the person. It&#x27;s as if my minds eye operates on abstractions rather than concrete representations. I also attribute my math ability with being able to manipulate these sorts of abstract visual&#x2F;spatial feelings, which leads me to believe there&#x27;s a connection. Even as a programmer my abstract visual&#x2F;spatial machinery is working to operate on mental representations of the program state.<p>I wonder differences in ability on this abstract visual&#x2F;spatial &lt;---&gt; vivid concrete representation axis can help explain differences in programming&#x2F;math ability.