autism

Universal grammar.

Nov 3, 2025

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autism, Chomsky, pronominal reversal, universal grammar

The theory of universal grammar is difficult to reconcile with pronominal reversal; if “I” refer to me as “he”, does that not mean that grammar is not universal, that it varies between individuals?
Evolution.

Apr 7, 2025

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autism, canalization, Combined pattern of childhood psycho-behavioral characteristics in patients with schizophrenia: a retrospective study in Japan, corpus callosum, critical comments by important family members, developmental factors, environmental factors, epigenesis, epigenetic, epigenetics, evolution, evolutionary fitness, Evolutionary Psychiatry, feed forward, Haeckel’s law, hippocampal place cells, hippocampi, homeostasis, induseum griseum, lateral longitudinal stria, maladaptation, medial longitudinal stria, mental health, mood disorders, neocortex, ontogeny, paranoid disorders, phenotypic plasticity, phylogeny, plasticity, rank theory of depression, schizophrenia, strands of Lancisi, The influence of phenotypic modifications on evolution: the Baldwin effect and modern perspectives, the Pons test, The role of phenotypic plasticity in driving genetic evolution, Waddington

Most patients with mental illness do not have relatives with the same condition. Phylogenetically, it may well have been true that social groups were stabilised by depressed members, and that families were stabilised by biddable members who passively accepted distortion: ontogenetically, these possibilities need to be tested, with the mental health of group members and…
To be or not to be.

Oct 21, 2024

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autism, borderline state, containment, counter-transference, psychic retreat, psychoanalysis, retreat, schizoid fantasy, Some aspects of interviewing technique and their relationship with the transference, to be or not to be, transference

To be or not to be, that is the question.To be in a world of one’s own, rather than not to be in the world of another, that is an answer. The consulting room is a place to be, and a place to remember having been, the more so with the therapist’s salutation: “Having reflected…
Exploration of ‘hallucinations’.

Sep 7, 2024

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apperception, autism, cancellation signals, corollary discharge, first-person singular pronouns, From sensation to cognition, hallucinations, illusion, magic, mind’s ear, mind’s eye, occult, perception, Psychology of Music C E Seashore 1938, psychosis, schizophrenia, supernatural, talismanic, thought broadcasting, thought echo, thought insertion

Visual hallucinations are due to activation of visual memory circuits by diffuse toxicity. The auditory hallucinations of schizophrenia are not perceptions without stimuli, they are apperceptions without responses, specifically the corollary discharges that normally indicate apperceptive ownership of one’s responses to perception: apperception minus corollary discharge equals perception. Arousal that has been inhibited during childhood…
Intimation.

Jul 28, 2024

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Intimation qualifies verbalisation, so that a particular content may be given emphasis by widening of the eyes, narrowing of the eyes, blinking, pupillary dilatation, unfocused eyes, lachrymosity, change of eye contact, glances, staring, wrinkling of the skin between the eyes, wrinkling of the skin around the eyes, nostril flares, nostril wrinkles, blowing out of the…
Vocalisation.

Jul 28, 2024

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A neuronal morphologic type unique to humans and great apes, A profile of prosodic speech differences in individuals with autism spectrum disorder and first-degree relatives, a word in edgeways, absolute pitch, acoustic analysis, aggressive mimicry, ahem, anxiety, autism, braggard, cadence, calculus, CDS, child-directed speech, Chimpanzees modify recruitment screams as a function of audience composition, convergent evolution, cough, crying, diffidence, disinhibition, dissemble, dissimulate, dyspopulophony, echolocation, emotion, emotionality, emphasis, enunciation, excitement, exclamation, fatherese, frequency, halting, Heschl’s gyrus, high-pass filter, hollow laughter, hollow voice, human parasite, imperative mood, inadvertent social information, inflection, inflexion, inner ear, interjection, interrogative mood, interruption, laughter, loudmouth, more to this than meets the ear, motherese, network, networking, octave, oval window, pace, Parallel Thalamocortical Pathways for Echolocation and Passive Sound Localisation in a Gleaning Bat Antrozous pallidus, parentese, pause, phonolocation, pitch, planum temporale, power, pregnant pause, pressure of talk, prosody, quaver, Revealing the structure of information flows discriminates similar animal social behaviours, sarcasm, Seneca, solfege scale, sounding out, spindle cells from Wikipedia, stapedius, stapes, The activity of the stapedius muscle in man during vocalization, throw-away remark, timbre, transverse temporal gyrus, triadic awareness, Two different motor systems are needed to generate human speech, Vocal fighting and flirting: the functions of birdsong 2004 Nature’s Music. The Science of Birdsong., vocal spectral analysis, vocalisation

The intention to vocalise is followed by contraction of the stapedius muscles, which reduces vibrations of the stapes (stirrup) bones, and thus the transmission of sound waves through the oval windows to the inner ears. The pitch, pace, pause and power of vocalisations qualify verbalisations. Comparisons can be made within sentences and between sentences, when…
Conjunction of evolutionary, Shakespearean and synaptic perspectives.

Jul 9, 2024

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The nerves of the brain may be activated or inhibited. Ideas come to mind, or are put to the back of the mind. Attention is activation of what is relevant and inhibition of what is not relevant. Inhibition may be more biologically costly than activation. The hard work of doing nothing. The hard work of…