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, [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockstitch | Lockstich sewing mahine