Someday ,when the building block thoughts of the mind, the picture thoughts Temple Grandin wrote about and the ones high functioning autistic people build upon are generally known about , common…

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The ability to remember a briefly presented scene depends on a number of factors, such as its saliency, novelty, degree of threat, or behavioral relevance to a task. Generally, attention is thought…

Autism and your normal mind -the connection. Have you ever been going along having a chat and suddenly your stopped cold?  You then see a "minds eye" thought of uncle joe (or something else).…

Environmentally friendly products are everywhere, but consumers aren't purchasing them because they care about the environment, according to a new University of Minnesota study. "Green purchases are…

It (catching a ball) was easy, I was 35 or so and for the first time  in my life caught a ball! To be able to do this I had to learn how to think  with both OPTIC and Brain Generated…

Some studies suggest that video gaming can improve vision and enhance information processing abilities. But that may be total nonsense, according to a study that examined the short-term effects of…

In the past week or two, there have been several news stories and blogs (including here on SB) written in regards to a paper that came out this month titled, "Why Liberals and Atheists Are More…

A new study that was just released on Sunday and published online in Nature Neuroscience has found that Ritalin, a popular medication to treat ADD/HD, helps improve learning not only by improving…

I sincerely apologize for my complete absence from the blogging world though a recent bout with what can only be called "The Plague" has had me incapacitated for more than a week. Minus a trip to the…