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[novapsyche]

found in asperger: Study: Americans Don't Understand Others

Brazil fishermen caught killing dolphins

Possible Link to Lucy's Ancestors Found

Archaeologists seek to safeguard Petra

Birds Bend Rules of Flight

Claws out in Florida Keys over Hemingway cats

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[vrax.livejournal.com]

Cool stuff especially the story about Lucy links. We live very close to the Natural History Museum here, and we go at least once a month with our son.

Ever been there?

[pgdudda.livejournal.com]

I do wonder whether the Chinese participants used Mandarin Chinese while performing the block exercise -- as there are cases where a speaker has to specify (often implicitly) that they see one and only one block, thereby triggering a perspective shift. The article doesn't say, so there's no way to know whether the researchers controlled for this with careful checking of the translation used. *shrug*

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

No, I haven't. How old is your son, and what's his favorite section?

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

Interesting.

So to control for that, you would need participants who were bilingual in something other than their native language. The instructions could be administered in Spanish, for example.

[vrax.livejournal.com]

20 months. His favorite right now is the otters. The museum houses a bunch of rescue animals that would die in the wild. The otters have a lovely terrarium with a looking glass window that shows you the water in which they swim. The otters love to swim up the window and play with the humans, everyone has a nice time. He also loves the owls.

I'm sure once he turns four or so, he'll be all about the dinosaur skeletons. It's pretty impressive to look at a full allosaurus skeleton in person.

The museum has one of the nicest planetariums in the country, too.

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

Also, the original post makes a similar point.