Different kinds of minds : a guide to your brain

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Different kinds of minds : a guide to your brain

Author:

Grandin, Temple, author.

Koffsky, Ann D., author.

Summary:

Do you like puzzles, coding, and taking things apart? Do you write stories, act in plays, slay at Wordle? The things you are good at are clues to how your brain works. Are you good at math? Working with your hands? Are you a neat freak or a big mess? With her knack for making science easy to understand, Temple Grandin explains different types of thinkers: verbal thinkers who are good with language, and visual thinkers who think in pictures and patterns. You will discover all kinds of minds and how we need to work together to create solutions to help solve real-world problems. -- Amazon.

Physical Description:

232 pages : illustrations, portraits, plans ; 24 cm.

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Subject Term:

Thought and thinking.

Author(s):

Koffsky, Ann D.,

Publisher:

Philomel Books,

Publication Date:

2023

ISBN:

9780593352878

Publication Information:

New York : Philomel Books, 2023.

Call Number:

YA 153.4 GRANDIN

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Albert Einstein. Steve Jobs. Elon Musk. Katharine Johnson. These geniuses are all visual thinkers. Are you?

Do you like puzzles, coding, and taking things apart? Do you write stories, act in plays, slay at Wordle? The things you are good at are clues to how your brain works. Are you good at math? Working with your hands? Are you a neat freak or a big mess?

With her knack for making science easy to understand, Temple Grandin explains different types of thinkers: verbal thinkers who are good with language, and visual thinkers who think in pictures and patterns. You will discover all kinds of minds and how we need to work together to create solutions to help solve real-world problems.

Author Notes

Temple Grandin was born August 29, 1947 in Boston, Massachusetts. She is a bestselling author, doctor and professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University, and leader of both the animal welfare and autism advocacy movements. Grandin was diagnosed with autism in 1950. She was immediately placed in a structured nursery, had speech therapy, and had a nanny spend hours playing turn-based games with her. At the age of four, she began talking and her progress continued.

In 1970, Grandin received her bachelor's degree in psychology from Franklin Pierce College in Rindge, New Hampshire. She received her master's degree in animal science from Arizona State University in 1975, and in 1989, she received a Ph.D. in animal science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Grandin, being a high-functioning autistic, is widely-known for her work in autism advocacy. She has been featured on major televisions programs such as the Today Show and ABC's Primetime Live. She has also been featured in Time magazine, People magazine, Forbes, and the New York Times. Grandin was the subject of the Horizon documentary "The Woman Who Thinks Like a Cow" and was described by Oliver Sacks in the title of his narrative book: An Anthropologist on Mars.

Grandin's bestselling book: Thinking in Pictures is scheduled to be released as an HBO film in 2009. Grandin's Animals in Translation and Animals Make Us Human have also been bestsellers. Grandin lives in Colorado, but has speaking engagements on autism and cattle handling around the world.

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"Having a brain that processes information in a new way can lead to innovation, discovery, and invention," write collaborators Grandin (Visual Thinking, for adults) and Koffsky (Sheep Says Shalom) in this somewhat dense work that analyzes how brains work. In the first chapter--"What Is Visual Thinking?"--the authors break down how thinking styles are sorted into visual, spatial visual, and verbal categories, and point out that most people utilize a combination thereof; many kids start as visual thinkers and adapt from there. Identifying as a lifelong visual thinker, Grandin describes being forced to acclimate to a verbal-thinking world, providing anecdotes and examples from her own life as an autistic woman with a career in agricultural design. She also expresses concern that the U.S.'s emphasis on testing rather than on practical, hands-on education doesn't support visual thinkers. Further chapters--rendered via narration that sometimes feels more directed at adult readers than children--delve into topics such as neuroscience and neurodiversity, and highlight evolving views on how animal brains function. Photographs and schematic-like illustrations depict subjects including Grandin, cattle handling systems she designed, and brain diagrams, and accompanying activities encourage readers to consider their own ways of thinking. Ages 8--12. (Nov.) ■

Introduction	11
Chapter 1 What is Visual Thinking	18
Chapter 2 Screened Out	40
Chapter 3 Clever Engineers	70
Chapter 4 Complementary Minds	94
Chapter 5 Defining Genius	118
Chapter 6 Visualizing Disaster	141
Chapter 7 Animal Thinking	177
Bibliography	214

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