

They love to make lists, and will often memorize (mundane) things such as train timetables & routes, stories in alphabetical order, and software product codes.Verbal/logic thinkers tend to have a huge memory for verbal facts on all kinds of things, such as film stars, sporting events, publications, or historical events. Verbal/logic thinkers - Verbal/logic thinkers tend to be good at learning languages, and have an affinity for words, literature, and speech.


Image source: 60 Minutes | Schneider Lab. In Temple, the tract connecting from the visual object to motor and frontal cortex is ten times the volume of the control, while the tract that connects speaking what is heard (colored cyan) to speaking what is seen (colored fuchsia) is one tenth of the volume of the control tract. Two component tracts within the language system. If the teacher thinks about it visually, a butterfly cut of chicken looks like a butterfly." The memories that come up first tend to be either early childhood or something that happened within the last week.Ī teacher working with a child with autism may not understand the connection when the child suddenly switches from talking about butterflies to talking about chicken. Then my mind gets off the subject and I see a butterfly cut of chicken that was served at a fancy restaurant approximately three days ago. The next image is metal decorative butterflies that people decorate the outside of their houses with and the third image is some butterflies I painted on a piece of plywood when I was in graduate school. If you say the word ‘butterfly’, the first picture I see is butterflies in my childhood backyard. My mind is associative and does not think in a linear manner. When I design livestock facilities, I can test run the equipment in my imagination similar to a virtual reality computer program. To form the concept of orange, I see many different orange objects, such as oranges, pumpkins, orange juice and marmalade. To form concepts, I sort pictures into categories similar to computer files. All my thinking is associative and not linear. When I design equipment for the cattle industry, I can test-run it in my imagination, similar to a virtual reality computer program. I use language to narrate the photo-realistic pictures that pop up in my imagination. "My mind is similar to an Internet search engine that searches for photographs. Visual thinkers may have photographic memory. Visual thinkers - Visual thinkers think in pictures and see things, either in their mind or physically, in order to process information.Although each person falls predominantly into one category, one can have a mixture of two or three. She has suggested that autistic people’s thinking fall into one of three categories: visual thinkers verbal/logic thinkers and musical/mathematical thinkers. Temple Grandin describes autism as a behavioral profile that has strengths and weaknesses.
