Asperger’s and the Emotions of Shapes
Cognitive Daily has a interesting post on how we ascribe emotions to static shapes and what this suggests about our brains.
“Pavlova and her colleagues argue that the implied imbalance in the pictures of static objects is what leads individuals to attribute emotion to them. They note as well that neural imaging of patients with Asperger Syndrome shows that the parieto-frontal circuits in these individuals are activated differently compared to normal individuals. Since one symptom of Asperger Syndrome is an inability to detect emotional states of others, the team suggests that there is a direct link between perception of the physical orientation of an object and perception of emotional states.“
The emotion of shapes
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Books:
- Of Mice and Aliens: An Asperger Adventure
- Blue Bottle Mystery : An Asperger’s Adventure
- Jackson Whole Wyoming
- The Social Skills Picture Book Teaching play, emotion, and communication to children with autism
- I Am Utterly Unique: Celebrating the Strengths of Children with Asperger Syndrome and High-Functioning Autism
March 28th, 2006
Autism
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