Designing a “better” brain: insights from experts and savants
نویسندگان
چکیده
1 Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK 2 Centre for the Mind, School of Medicine, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia 3 Centre for Research in Complex Systems, Faculty of Business, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, NSW, Australia 4 Complex Systems Research Group, Faculty of Engineering and IT, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia *Correspondence: [email protected]
منابع مشابه
Are Animals Autistic Savants?
S imilarities in behaviour between autistic savants and animals have been suggested, most notably by Temple Grandin [1] in her book Animals in Translation (2005), and this theory seems to have gained some consensus among other neuroscientists who are not specialists in animal cognition. Here we aim to discuss two specific parallels between the behavioural characteristics of animals and those of...
متن کاملTitle: Melody and Pitch Processing in Five Musical Savants with Congenital Blindness
Five musical savants with congenital blindness, seven musicians and seven non-musicians with good vision and normal intelligence took part in two experiments. In the first, participants reproduced note strings varying in length and key; in the second, participants learnt associations between four pitches and four objects using a non-verbal paradigm. In the first experiment, the savants and musi...
متن کاملMelody and pitch processing in five musical savants with congenital blindness.
We examined absolute-pitch (AP) and short-term musical memory abilities of five musical savants with congenital blindness, seven musicians, and seven non-musicians with good vision and normal intelligence in two experiments. In the first, short-term memory for musical phrases was tested and the savants and musicians performed statistically indistinguishably, both significantly outperforming the...
متن کاملComparison of Different Linear Filter Design Methods for Handling Ocular Artifacts in Brain Computer Interface System
Brain-computer interfaces (BCI) record brain signals, analyze and translate them into control commands which are relayed to output devices that carry out desired actions. These systems do not use normal neuromuscular output pathways. Actually, the principal goal of BCI systems is to provide better life style for physically-challenged people which are suffered from cerebral palsy, amyotrophic l...
متن کاملDesigning of a comprehensive curriculum model based on the theory of brain-based learning in organizational training (Andragogy)
Introduction:The underlying concerns of organizations, reforming, the user environment curriculum, according to the brain's capabilities of each human capital in order to meet the ever-increasing expectations of customers (service providers) and competition with competitors. Thus, the present research has been designed with the purpose of reforming organizational learning processes through the ...
متن کامل