Wednesday, November 02, 2005

Bit More Brain Physiology


The frontal lobe or prefrontal cortex is responsible for appropriate responses and social planning, problem solving and selective attention. There are two temporal lobes, one on each side of the brain located at about the level of the ears. These lobes allow a person to tell one smell from another and one sound from another. They also help in sorting new information and are believed to be responsible for short-term memory. Right Lobe - Mainly involved in visual memory (i.e., memory for pictures and faces). Left Lobe - Mainly involved in verbal memory (i.e., memory for words and names)

And the reason why this is here because these are the two main areas of the brain in which autistics seems to differ.
hence it is important in understnding how their simingly wide ranging difficulties are connected. Any design aimed at this group needs to consider this very carefully.