Thinking visually
I am fascinated by visual cognition. In 2015, I wrote an editorial for Museological Review (University of Leicester's Museum Studies PhD Department's peer reviewed journal) about it. I quoted Temple Grandin, Nick Sousanis and from Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences. My doctoral dissertation utilized a visual methodology based on the photo-voice work innovated by Claudia Mitchell. Not only does this subject fascinate me from an academic perspective, it has been important to my relationships with an assortment of people who are important to me and who, because they have been diagnosed to be on the Autism Spectrum, as Temple Grandin explained her own meta-cognitive processes, "think in pictures". Then I had a stroke and was recommended to read the experiences of a neuro-scientist, PhD, Jill Bolte Taylor, whose book, My Stroke of Insight , documents her own severe brain-bleed that disabled the left hemisphere of her brain for some time. That is the area of th...