Word: spatialism
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...from not paying attention in class or just being a bit slow. "Dyscalculia is where dyslexia was 30, 40 or 50 years ago," says Mahesh Sharma, a professor of mathematics education at Cambridge College in Massachusetts. Indeed, even the definition is a bit fuzzy. Some researchers count disabilities in spatial perception or arithmetic operations as dyscalculia, while others restrict it to difficulty recognizing numbers normally. Cohen Kadosh's tests hold out the possibility that different math dysfunctions could well be processed elsewhere in the brain. "I won't say this study provides all the answers," says Sharma. Definitely...
...Even more interesting to Solms were 53 Royal London Hospital patients with healthy brain stems who said they'd stopped dreaming. Most of them had damage to the part of the brain that generates spatial imagery. That made sense: if you can't create pictures in your mind, how are you going to dream? It was the circumstances of the remaining nine patients that fascinated Solms. They had damage to the white matter of the ventromesial quadrant of the frontal lobes, an area linked to the transmission of the chemical dopamine and crucially involved in motivation, urges and cravings. These...
...effect has a storied pedigree: similar reports dogged Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim museum in New York City. Spokeswoman Andrea Fulton says the museum has received only eight written complaints, but concedes "walls that aren't at 90° angles do present a different sort of spatial experience...
Boys and girls, they pointed out, develop differently and are quite out of sync with each other. Most boys lag behind most girls developmentally. Although they perceive spatial relationships vividly and achieve large motor control early, their relationship to the physical world makes them less able to sit quietly, listen closely, and, in general, behave like girls...
Gilbert and Sullivan operettas exist within a world of their own. To begin with, the comedic works are distinctly British and distinctly Victorian. But even beyond their spatial and temporal remoteness, the pieces tend to play themselves out in a bizarre alternate world, where identities are often mistaken and endings rarely make sense.The history of the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players (HRG&SP) has often unfolded in a manner as quirky and topsy-turvy as the comedies themselves. The kings and controversies of Gilbert and Sullivan’s libretti seem to jump from the stage into the group?...