Synesthesia (also spelled synæsthesia or synaesthesia, plural synesthesiae or synaesthesiae), from the ancient Greek σύν (syn), “together,” and αἴσθησις (aisthēsis), “sensation,” is a neurologically based condition in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences […]
It is not always easy and simple to be gifted, then when one comes to be “twice-exceptional”, whether by being dyslexic, or a woman, or even belonging to an ethnic minority. Homosexuals must not be forgotten. Found in Gifted Child […]
On Pub Med, this study published on February 16, 2011 in PLOSOne : “Different gain/loss sensitivity and social adaptation ability in gifted adolescents during a public goods game.“) The study was run by the Department of Bio and Brain Engineering, […]
Neurotransmettors have interested me a lot all along these summer weeks… Here is an article I have found : Dopamine System in Highly Creative People Similar to That Seen in Schizophrenics, Study Finds New research shows a possible explanation for […]
“What does not kill makes one stronger” is a maxim which could well apply to self- knowledge, since there has long been a philosophical tradition which links suffering and personal developmentl. In a former post (“Be greeted psychoneurotics !“) I […]
It all started with these few words which I read : « You can’t stay, you can’t play » sending me back to these (primary- and high-) school years when I have been so often told them. I was expelled, set apart, […]
The French psychologist Jeanne Siaud Fachin was first in France to compare gifted people and zebras. Her arguments : – The Zebra is the only equin which man never harnessed – This is an atypical animal – Each zebra is […]
My brain constantly boils with ideas that drive me insomniac. I start so many things end end up ending nothing, desperately looking for a real good output.. which make me start something new, hope again and despair again… On the […]