Visual thinking: The hidden gifts of people who think in pictures, patterns, and abstractions
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Grandin, TempleUnknown
Riverhead Books (New York, 2022) (eng) EnglishUnknownUnknownKindle ed.VISUAL PERCEPTION; Please contact library staf for borrowing kindle device; A quarter of a century after her memoir, Thinking in Pictures, forever changed how the world understood autism, Temple Grandin—the “anthropologist on Mars,” as Oliver Sacks dubbed her—transforms our awareness of the different ways our brains are wired. Do you have a keen sense of direction, a love of puzzles, the ability to assemble furniture without crying? You are likely a visual thinker.
With her genius for demystifying science, Grandin draws on cutting-edge research to take us inside visual thinking. Visual thinkers constitute a far greater proportion of the population than previously believed, she reveals, and a more varied one, from the photo-realistic object visualizers like Grandin herself, with their intuitive knack for design and problem solving, to the abstract, mathematically inclined “visual spatial” thinkers who excel in pattern recognition and systemic thinking. She also makes us understand how a world increasingly geared to the verbal tends to sideline visual thinkers, screening them out at school and passing over them in the workplace. Rather than continuing to waste their singular gifts, driving a collective loss in productivity and innovation, Grandin proposes new approaches to educating, parenting, employing, and collaborating with visual thinkers. In a highly competitive world, this important book helps us see, we need every mind on board.
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Summary / review / table of contents
What is visual thinking?
Screened out
Where are all the clever engineers?
Complementary minds
Genius and neurodiversity
Visualizing risk to prevent disasters
Animal consciousness and visual thinking