Oliver North
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Originally posted by Dolos
Anyway, this article gets the core of why geniuses are manifested from a prodigal sense of self-worth;http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4614-5773-2_8#page-1
that is a book chapter, not peer reviewed
Originally posted by Dolos
This article is about the mentally impaired, but it gets down to focus on one thing, obsession, shutting off the world, and direct and phenomenal increases in cognitive functioning in that particular area;http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0156655920390208#.UYM2uKLP1YU
^I am a savant, yet I keep it fluid, and therefore I'm able to completely hide the tale tell signs of my disorder by improving inter-personal, emotional, and social skills in that same manner..out of necessity, utter focus on things outside of what my mind naturally clings to. I need to be able to adapt my ability to shut off everything, to what will help me survive in the now.
you have a legitimate clinical diagnosis or you have read about something on the internet and decided you have it?
Originally posted by Dolos
This abstract explains a little about how the brain analyzes and interprets the world through self-created patterns. It explains how we learn, how we think, why we perceive and respond the way we do. Meta-cognitively, this process can be self-improved upon, sharpened.http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=33&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fxpls%2Fabs_all.jsp%3Farnumber%3D33
not really. That is an article about a computer model that tries to use neural networks to produce pattern recognition that produces results on tasks similar to how humans perform. Models don't actually purport to describe the mechanisms that the brain uses, but rather, we try to use models to infer what types of mechanisms could be there. I'd imagine the article might have a line or two in it suggesting what you are saying, but it is not a very good example overall. In fact, neural network models have fallen out of fashion. I don't do modeling so I can't give you the whole story, but there are lots of other competing ones now.
That being said, what you wrote is not hugely different from how learning is understood. Patterns aren't "self-made", but sure, at every level, from low level perception to high level cognition, our brain seeks patterns, and does so even if there is no pattern. In more behaviorist terms, it can be thought of as response contingencies between behaviour and outcome. This is why current neuro theories of memory focus on the physical connections built between stimuli, and why there is no single location for memory in the brain. We learn associations between things.
Originally posted by Dolos
Finally we have arousal, your over-bloated sense of things related to your learning and your improvement in life;http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=search.displayRecord&UID=1996-02827-004
there is actually a very complex relationship between arousal and memory. for instance, there is a "sweet spot" for arousal: too little or too much, and performance tanks, but with "just enough", memory, and nearly all other task performance peaks. Not only that, but there is a contextual component as well. So, at peak arousal, not only do you encode and retrieve memories better, you have a bias for memories you had previously encoded at that same level of arousal verses those at other levels of arousal. Similarly, if you encode something at low arousal, you are biased toward that information when trying to retrieve something later at low arousal.
This type of hypersensitivity to context is a really fascinating part of the brain 🙂
EDIT: Just to throw it out there, what I quoted wasn't really related to any of this, namely the "The brain isn't unique" line...