The Mind of a Mnemonist: A Little Book about a Vast Memory

Cameron, William Bruce

doi:10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1970.24.2.337

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“…For ASC individuals, Temple Grandin grouped characteristic cognitive styles into the following: 1) visual thinkers; 2) music and math thinkers (pattern thinkers); and 3) verbal logic thinkers (288). Distinct cognitive strategies observable in high-functional ASC, savants, and gifted are calculation, architecture, and art creation by manipulating vivid visual imagery (68,(108)(109)(110)(111)(112)(113). Enhanced pattern detection is likely to develop through exceptional sensory acuity and veridical mapping across isomorphic structures (289).…”

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Giftedness and atypical sexual differentiation: enhanced perceptual functioning through estrogen deficiency instead of androgen excess

Sakaguchi,

Tawata

2024

Front. Endocrinol.

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Syndromic autism spectrum conditions (ASC), such as Klinefelter syndrome, also manifest hypogonadism. Compared to the popular Extreme Male Brain theory, the Enhanced Perceptual Functioning model explains the connection between ASC, savant traits, and giftedness more seamlessly, and their co-emergence with atypical sexual differentiation. Overexcitability of primary sensory inputs generates a relative enhancement of local to global processing of stimuli, hindering the abstraction of communication signals, in contrast to the extraordinary local information processing skills in some individuals. Weaker inhibitory function through gamma-aminobutyric acid type A (GABAA) receptors and the atypicality of synapse formation lead to this difference, and the formation of unique neural circuits that process external information. Additionally, deficiency in monitoring inner sensory information leads to alexithymia (inability to distinguish one’s own emotions), which can be caused by hypoactivity of estrogen and oxytocin in the interoceptive neural circuits, comprising the anterior insular and cingulate gyri. These areas are also part of the Salience Network, which switches between the Central Executive Network for external tasks and the Default Mode Network for self-referential mind wandering. Exploring the possibility that estrogen deficiency since early development interrupts GABA shift, causing sensory processing atypicality, it helps to evaluate the co-occurrence of ASC with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, dyslexia, and schizophrenia based on phenotypic and physiological bases. It also provides clues for understanding the common underpinnings of these neurodevelopmental disorders and gifted populations.

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Giftedness and atypical sexual differentiation: enhanced perceptual functioning through estrogen deficiency instead of androgen excess

Sakaguchi,

Tawata

2024

Front. Endocrinol.

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“…Just as people differ in their musical, mathematical, and other abilities, they differ in their memory. Literature describes individuals with outstanding memory who remembered whole books by heart, could describe in detail each day of their lives, and so on (Luria 1968;Parker and others 2006;Treffert and Christensen 2005). For example, a man named Kim Peek remembered by heart all books he read (~9000), starting with books that were read to him by his mother at the age of 1.5 years (Treffert and Christensen 2005).…”

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Memory: Synaptic or Cellular, That Is the Question

Arshavsky

2022

Neuroscientist

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According to the commonly accepted opinion, memory engrams are formed and stored at the level of neural networks due to a change in the strength of synaptic connections between neurons. This hypothesis of synaptic plasticity (HSP), formulated by Donald Hebb in the 1940s, continues to dominate the directions of experimental studies and the interpretations of experimental results in the field. The universal acceptance of the HSP has transformed it from a hypothesis into an incontrovertible theory. In this article, I show that the entire body of experimental and clinical data obtained in studies of long-term memory in mammals and humans is inconsistent with the HSP. Instead, these data suggest that long-term memory is formed and stored at the intracellular level where it is reliably protected from ongoing synaptic activity, including pathological epileptic activity. It seems that the generally accepted HSP became a serious obstacle to understanding the mechanisms of memory and that progress in this field requires rethinking this doctrine and shifting experimental efforts toward exploring the intracellular mechanisms.

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“…Meichenbaum also emphasized the need for individualization (1977) that is seen in SRSD's recursive stages, with the recognition that each student learns at a different pace. Soviet theorists, especially from the Vygotsky Circle (Yasnitsky, 2011), including Vygotsky (1962), Luria (1968), andWertsch (1979), were also influential. These scientists, along with others, contributed to the development of many foundations of educational psychology, including zone of proximal development, understanding memory function, social origins of self-control, and developmental learning.…”

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Self‐Regulated Strategy Development: A Framework for Effective Instruction across the Content Areas

McKeown

FitzPatrick

Ennis

et al. 2021

Learn Disabil Res Pract

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Self-regulated strategy development (SRSD) is an instructional framework considered to be an evidence-based practice in writing. In this article, SRSD's foundations and structure is briefly described. Then, the authors provide a summary of studies of SRSD applied across content areas, including writing, reading, mathematics, science, and social studies along with an introduction to the special issue.

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The Mind of a Mnemonist: A Little Book about a Vast Memory

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Giftedness and atypical sexual differentiation: enhanced perceptual functioning through estrogen deficiency instead of androgen excess

Giftedness and atypical sexual differentiation: enhanced perceptual functioning through estrogen deficiency instead of androgen excess

Memory: Synaptic or Cellular, That Is the Question

Self‐Regulated Strategy Development: A Framework for Effective Instruction across the Content Areas

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