Thursday, February 24, 2005
Autistic people
I read an extraordinary article in Guardian (via slashdot.org) about one autistic person that also can explain up to some point what happens to him. I got interested in this area after a professor of mine (Yiannis Aloimonos) sugested us to read about autistic people as part of a computer vision class. It seems that we all have similar capabilities (like doing complex arithmetics mentally), but we just can't access this layer in our brains.
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Talking about autism, perhaps you can get your hands on a great novel written from the perspective of an autistic boy - "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon. very very well done!
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9905EED81E30F936A25755C0A9659C8B63
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