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Temple Grandin
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There are no files in my memory that are repressed,' she asserted. 'You have files that are blocked. I have none so painful that they’re blocked. There are no secrets, no locked doors—nothing is hidden. I can infer that there are hidden areas in other people, so that they can’t bear to talk of certain things. The amygdala locks the files of the hippocampus. In me, the amygdala doesn’t generate enough emotion to lock the files of the hippocampus.
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― An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
― An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
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[...] The hope is that research can find ways to improve a faulty social brain. There is already evidence that practice can help people overcome at least some of the motor deficits I've just described. Remember Temple Grandin, the autistic woman who learned how to approach people properly, without bowling them over, by walking through a supermarket's automatic doors over and over until she got the steps down? She overcame a social problem that was really a motor problem. [...]
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― A User's Guide to the Brain: Perception, Attention, and the Four Theaters of the Brain
― A User's Guide to the Brain: Perception, Attention, and the Four Theaters of the Brain
