神马文学网Scientific American: Debunking Animal Autism
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Debunking Animal Autism
Animalbehaviorist Temple Grandin believes extraordinary animals think muchlike autistic geniuses. Now, some neuroscientists say it simply isn‘ttrue. *This week‘s podcast guest hosted by Christopher Intagliata, anintern for Scientific American Mind. www.sciammind.com
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Imagine you’re at the beach. The right side of your brainregisters brown grains of sand, gray ones, white ones, tan ones, blackones… “Hellooo!” the left side says. “It’s a beach!”
But what if the left side didn’t tell you it was a beach? That’s sortof how animal behaviorist and autistic celebrity Temple Grandindescribes being autistic. Lots of Polaroid snapshots scattered about.Fewer brain “managers” sweeping them into perfect little piles.
Grandin says that animals also think like autistic savants, a theory she popularized in her book Animals in Translation.
But this week in the journal PLoS Biology neuroscientists argue thatanimals have brains similar to those of non-autistic humans—they takein lots of juicy stimuli, sift through, and draw a cohesive picture.They say this selective filtering process is as essential to animals asit is to us.
The authors agree that some animals have extraordinary, savant-likecognitive powers—Clark’s woodpecker can locate over 1000 pine nutstashes, for example—but they say these brilliant birds are simply welladapted, and don’t suffer other cognitive impairments typical in humanautistic savants.
This week‘s podcast guest hosted by Christopher Intagliata, an intern forScientific American Mind.
Animalbehaviorist Temple Grandin believes extraordinary animals think muchlike autistic geniuses. Now, some neuroscientists say it simply isn‘ttrue. *This week‘s podcast guest hosted by Christopher Intagliata, anintern for Scientific American Mind. www.sciammind.com
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Imagine you’re at the beach. The right side of your brainregisters brown grains of sand, gray ones, white ones, tan ones, blackones… “Hellooo!” the left side says. “It’s a beach!”
But what if the left side didn’t tell you it was a beach? That’s sortof how animal behaviorist and autistic celebrity Temple Grandindescribes being autistic. Lots of Polaroid snapshots scattered about.Fewer brain “managers” sweeping them into perfect little piles.
Grandin says that animals also think like autistic savants, a theory she popularized in her book Animals in Translation.
But this week in the journal PLoS Biology neuroscientists argue thatanimals have brains similar to those of non-autistic humans—they takein lots of juicy stimuli, sift through, and draw a cohesive picture.They say this selective filtering process is as essential to animals asit is to us.
The authors agree that some animals have extraordinary, savant-likecognitive powers—Clark’s woodpecker can locate over 1000 pine nutstashes, for example—but they say these brilliant birds are simply welladapted, and don’t suffer other cognitive impairments typical in humanautistic savants.
This week‘s podcast guest hosted by Christopher Intagliata, an intern forScientific American Mind.
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