Wittgensteinian problem: How can we know that we're talking about the same thing?


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Stichting BAM: Bescherming Akoestisch Milieu (Protection of the Acoustic Environment) for people who are highly sensitive to noise. Their goal is to fight "imposed noise ( Read more... )

Björne, P., and Balkenius, C. (2003). Autism as an attentional disorder. In Proceedings of the XIth European Conference on Developmental Psychology. (apparently only the abstract is available)

AbstractAttention is probably one of the most fundamental abilities for learning. It has been proposed to encompass parts such as disengagement from current ( Read more... )

Carnegie Mellon and University of Pittsburgh Scientists Discover Biological Basis for Autism

PITTSBURGH-A team of brain scientists at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh have made a groundbreaking discovery into the biological basis for autism, a mysterious brain disorder that impairs verbal and non-verbal communications ( Read more... )