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"A quarter of a century after her first book, Thinking in Pictures, forever changed how the world understood autism, Temple Grandin--the "anthropologist from Mars," as Oliver Sacks dubbed her--transforms our understanding of the different ways our brains are wired. Visual thinkers constitute a far greater proportion of the population than previously understood, she reveals, and a more varied one, from the purest "object visualizers" like Grandin herself,...
3) Zoom
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A wordless picture book presents a series of scenes, each one from farther away, showing, for example, a girl playing with toys which is actually a picture on a magazine cover, which is part of a sign on a bus, and so on.
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This book is designed to help the reader gain access to right-brain functions, which affect artistic and creative abilities, by teaching drawing through unusual exercises designed to increase visual skills. It includes updates based on recent research about the brain's plasticity and the emerging significance of right-brain functioning. It offers new tools for identifying and solving life problems with the visual-thinking skills acquired through drawing....
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Players attempt to cover as much of the board with their pieces as possible, blockading opponents while expanding their territory.
"Blokus is a strategy board game that challenges spatial thinking, encourages creative thinking and has received a Mensa award for promoting healthy brain activity. The goal of this game is for players to fit all of their pieces onto the board. When placing a piece it may not lie adjacent to the player's other pieces,...
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"Art historian Amy Herman has trained experts from many fields how to perceive and communicate better. By showing people how to look closely at images, she helps them hone their 'visual intelligence', a set of skills we all possess but few of us know how to use properly. Whether you want to be more effective on the job, more empathetic toward your loved ones, or more alert to the trove of possibilities and threats all around us, this book will show...
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A wordless picture book presents a series of scenes, each one from farther away, showing, for example, a boat which becomes the image on a magazine, which is held in a hand, which belongs to a boy, and so on.
18) Who ate it?
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Illustrates such shapes and colors as we see in foods, uses the name of each eatable, and hides it in a double page view for the child to discover.
19) Just look
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The reader views photographs of familiar objects, first through cut-out holes, then in their entirety.
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From the moment you wake up, eat your breakfast, go through your day until you reach bedtime, you see millions of different images-different sizes, different colors. Why do we see what we do? And how sure are we that what we are seeing is actually true or is it affected by something else? You'll never know what is hiding behind or beneath the images that you see. It may be true that first impressions last, but remember, they aren't always right!