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Visual Thinking

The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions

Temple Grandin 2022 / West Slope 152.14 GRANDIN

• 001 Born 1947, late speech, therapy
• 011 Cattle halt in chute ... shadows, dangling chains

• 012 U. Montreal Laurent Mottron / Sylvia Belleville

• 012 Autism visual perception and accuracy
• 015 Geniuses are usually pilers instead of filers / Linda Silverman
• 017 Grace Murray Hopper took apart 7 family clocks

• 017 TaskRabbit assemble Ikea furniture

• 024 1987 UCSD MRI, cerebellum 30% smaller than average, amygdala three times larger
• 025 Walter Schneider Diffusion Tensor Imaging, speech circuits 30% smaller, visual 400% larger
• 027 Magnetoencephalography (MEG) visual thinkers create visual area images, verbal thinkers relied on self-talk

• 027 Roger Sperry, we "neglect the non-verbal form of intellect. ... modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere."

• 028 autism ... multiple genes of small effect
• 029 25% blind use echolocation, the brain reuses visual cortex for other senses

• 031 Maria Kozhevnikov Harvard Med School 2002 Visualizer-Verbalizer Cognitive Style Questionnaire VVCSQ. folded paper with hole, where are holes when unfolded, Grandin terrible at this

• 032 Object visualizers (ie TG) and spatial visualizers (patterns and abstractions, music math EE physics)
• 036 TG draws accurate blueprints, tracing mental image onto paper, works with brilliants marginalized for weirdness
• 039 aphantasia, no visual imagery, hyperphantasia
• 039 Which green is lighter, leaf or pine needle? Leaves range from black to light green to red and brown, silly question.
• 040 hyperphantasia, excessively(?) detailed visual memories
• 044 Life, Animated documentary about autistic Owen Suskind (5 copies wccls)

• 047 RemoveDEBRIS "combat interstellar debris" sic

• 050 Elias Howe favorite inventor, Lockstitch sewing machine

• 051 2001 "No Child Left Behind" stripped away shop, theater, all hands-on learning
• 052 some interns never used scissors
• 053 field trips unfunded, but nearby "sidewalk field trips" also work
• 055 TG teaches veterinarians, but was screened out of veterinary school, couldn't master algebra
• 059 many gripes about math requirements
• 061 kids do better with real world examples
• 063 40% STEM drop out, twice attrition rate of other majors, "math-science death march"

• 065 TG taught phonics by mother, using interesting stories, similar to IEP

• 066 Boarding school, TG took care of horses
• 068 TG reads writing out loud, remembers teacher's grammar corrections, learned to pick out main points

• 069 Katherine Johnson, skipped grades as child

• 070 "Is it going to be on the test?"

• 071 $1.3T student loans

• 072 SAT earns $1B for College Board, $1.1B for college prep industry, biased against minorities
• 073 UC and others no longer consider SAT

• 074 Iverson Larson Simple Thinking French