Filed under: education | Tags: childhood, creative, growth, Inner Child, learning, Makoto Shichida, natural, perception, personality, psychology, speed reading, thoughts, words
Professor Makoto Shichida is leading a worldwide revolution in right brain education which is
changing the way we understand children, their brain capabilities and their learning styles. He has been committed the last 40 years to developing techniques to stimulate the early development of the right brain.
Over the years, he has founded over 400 Child Academies in Japan. He has also written more than a hundred books (in Japanese), some of which remains on the bestsellers list in Japan.
The basis of his theory is that from ages birth through three, the right brain works dominantly. During this period, it is important to provide as much as a baby needs, and to stimulate his or her five senses regularly. This is also a time when the child is fast absorbing information and is extremely eager to learn.
Accessing the right brain enables a child to learn better and could unlock creative abilities.These include speed-reading skills, a photographic memory, the ability to accurately sketch something seen only once, a facility for performing instant math equations, and rare musical talent. The right brain is also responsible for visual and spatial processing, and the ability to see problems in multiple dimensions, as great physicists do.
Children grow and mature faster than parents think. The human brain rapidly starts developing soon after birth.At the age of six, 70% of the brain is developed, and at around the age of 10, almost 90% of the brain is developed. To make corrections or changes later on will prove to be an incredibly hard task, and great effort will be needed for it.
These children are tapping powers we never knew existed as if they are perfectly normal. Watching them rapidly memorize enormous amounts of information and recall with precision and understanding, predict future events, improve their athletic ability instantaneously is his guide for education.
There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago. ~J. Robert Oppenheimer
Makoto Schichida Method
BrillBaby is the most comprehensive
resource on Makoto Schichida’s method.
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Filed under: perception | Tags: autistic savant, awareness, perception, personality, psychology, random musings, Right Brain, thoughts
Written by Stephen M. Edelson, Ph.D.
The autistic savant is one of the most fascinating cognitive phenomena in psychology. “Autistic savant” refers to individuals with autism who have extraordinary skills not exhibited by most persons.
The estimated prevalence of savant abilities in autism is 10%, whereas the prevalence in the non-autistic population, including those with mental retardation, is less than 1%.
There are many forms of savant abilities. The most common forms involve mathematical calculations, memory feats, artistic abilities, and musical abilities. A mathematical ability which many autistic individuals display is calendar memory. They could be asked a question like: ‘What day of the week was May 22, 1961? and they can determine the answer within seconds–Monday. Others can multiply and divide large numbers in their head and can also calculate square roots and prime numbers without much hesitation.
Examples of some memory feats include: remembering everything about Presidents (birth/death, term in office, names and birth dates of family members, cabinet members, etc.), memorizing the U.S. highway system, and remembering everyone’s birth date, even after meeting the person once and not seeing him/her for 20 years.
Some autistic individuals with savant abilities are incredible artists. Music is another common savant ability. Many performers with autism have perfect pitch and also have a great memory for music. In some cases, a person can hear a classical piece once and play it back in its entirety.
The movie Rain Man exposed millions of people to autism as well as the autistic savant phenomenon. In the movie, Raymond displayed a great memory for ball player statistics, memorized parts of the telephone book, and counted cards in Las Vegas.
The reason why some autistic individuals have savant abilities is not known. There are many theories, but there is no evidence to confirm any of them.
In most autistic savants a single special skill exists; in others multiple skills occur. The skills tend to be right hemisphere in type — nonsymbolic, concrete, directly perceived — in contrast to left hemisphere type that tend to be more sequential, logical and symbolic including language specialization. Imaging studies such as CT, MRI or PET have been carried out, savants, and particularly autistic savants, do demonstrate left hemisphere damage, with presumably, right hemisphere compensatory function. But points to the extraordinary gifts and potentials of the yet unexplored right brain.
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