-- Mathematics. -- Insights from Paper Folding: Spatial Visualization Processes and their link to Mathematics. -- Mindset Matters: The Role of Mathematics Self-Concept and Age in Mental Rotation Performance among Primary School Children. -- Eliciting Spatial Reasoning Actions through Projective Geometry in the Elementary Classroom. -- Gender differences. -- Gender in teacher-student interactions: Another factor in spatial ability development and STEM affiliation. -- Cognitive Perspectives on Perceived Spatial Ability in STEM. -- STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics). -- Emerging Trajectory for Disembedding: An Online Educational Program for Spatial Thinking in a Context of Visual Arts and Mathematics Education. -- The Spatial Aspect of Designing: Opportunities, Challenges, and Conjectures on Engaging Pupils in Spatial Thinking through Design Education. -- Divided Attention in Human-Robot Teaming: Assessing Performance in Large-Scale Interactive Virtual Environments. -- Early childhood. -- ‘Bear Hunt’ Sparks Change: Using Lesson Study to Integrate Spatial Thinking in Early Childhood Design Education.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference, Spatial Cognition 2024, held in Dublin, Ireland, during June 25 - 29, 2024. The 9 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 12 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections as follows: Mathematics; Gender Differences; STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics); and Early Childhood.