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What's Hot at the Centre!
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What Makes
A Champion! book launch
Professor Snyder's book What Makes
A Champion! is now available in Chinese (published
by Peking University Press) and includes a forward written
by the President of the prestigious Peking University.
The gala book launch took place in Beijing on 9 April 2008.
The occasion
of the book launch also marked the start of Peking University's What
Makes A Champion?TM program. |
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Professor
Snyder gives keynote address at Peking University
Professor Snyder gave the first address in the distinguished
What Makes A Champion? Lecture Series at Beijing's
Peking University on 9 April 2008. The lecture, entitled What
Makes A Champion?, was a prelude to the Centre's second What
Makes A Champion?TM forum, to be
held at Peking University on 4-5 August 2008, on the eve of
the Beijing Olympic Games. |
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What Makes
A Champion?TM
What Makes A Champion?TM has
been designated an official Olympic Cultural Event for Beijing
2008. The What Makes A Champion?TM forum
will be held at China's most prestigious university, Peking
University, on the eve of the Beijing Olympic Games. It will
examine how culture modulates our understanding of and attitudes
to extraordinary success. Professor Snyder is the creator
of What Makes A Champion?TM.
For more information, go to the WMC website.
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"Are animals
autistic?"
An article published in the February 2008 issue of PLoS
Biology discusses whether animals are
autistic. This co-authored paper is the result of the FEAST
workshop on Higher Cognition in Animals (May 2007). Click
here to read the
article.
New Scientist discussed the paper in an article in
its 23 February 2008 issue. Click
here to read the article. |
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My Brilliant
Brain
The 3-part National Geographic documentary My Brilliant
Brain, featuring Allan Snyder and the Centre in Part
3, Accidental Genius, is currently re-screening on Australia's
National Geographic channel. Screening dates are 18 and 25
January 2008. |
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"Mind Matters"
Malaysia's national The Star newspaper of 25 November
2007 features a profile of Allan Snyder. This follows the airing
of the National Geographic documentary My Brilliant
Brain on Malaysian televsion. Click
here to read the article. |
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My Brilliant
Brain
The 3-part National Geographic documentary My
Brilliant Brain, featuring Allan Snyder and
the Centre in Part 3, Accidental Genius, is currently screening
on Australia's National Geographic channel. Screening dates
are 16, 18, 20 and 24 November 2007. |
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Interview with
Allan Snyder
featured in new SuperConsciousness magazine
The premier issue of SuperConsciousness magazine (September/October
2007) features an interview with Allan Snyder, discussing the
concept of genius.
Click here to read the article.
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The Real Superhumans
This documentary by Proper Television Canada, tells the stories
of real people with extraordinary 'superpowers'. Screened
by Discovery Channel worldwide,
the program features Allan Snyder with Ruediger Gamm
- called the Human Calculator. Click
here to view the airdates
throughout Europe and East Africa. |
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"Champions
in the Spotlight"
The University of Sydney's UniNews 5 October 2007 edition
features an interview with Allan Snyder. The article discusses
the Professor's research into championship, which will be highlighted
at the second What
Makes A Champion? forum,
to be held at Peking University just prior to the Olympic Games
opening ceremony. |
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"Beautiful
Minds"
The Weekend Australian Magazine of 11-12 August 2007
features an article on the Tao brothers, a trio of highly gifted
young men. In the article, Allan Snyder discusses his research
into the nature of genius in relation to Terry, Trevor and Nigel
Tao.
Click here to read the article. |
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A Beautiful Mind
The 12 August 2007 edition of Channel Nine's 60
Minutes featured a story on the mental
abilities of autistic savants, highlighting the extraordinary Daniel
Tammet and Stephen Wiltshire, drawing on the research of Allan
Snyder and the Centre for the Mind. |
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"How does a
human calculator do it?"
A BBC News Magazine online article of 30 July 2007 quotes Allan
Snyder in its discussion on the abilities of autistic savants
- particularly the human calculator, Alexis Lemaire. Click
here to read the article. |
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My Brilliant Brain
The Centre's research features in a 3-part UK documentary
My Brilliant Brain, made by National Geographic and
screened on the UK's Channel Five on 23 July 2007. Allan Snyder
and the Centre feature in Part 3, which discusses the notion
of 'accidental genius'. Click
here to read
Channel Five's blog page about the documentary. Click
here to read
The Times online review of the documentary. |
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"Patching
up the ivory towers"
Allan Snyder's work was singled out in article in the Sydney
Morning Herald on 12 May 2007 as the type of funding that
University research will get in the future. The article emphasises
that "the best universities are keen to ensure the money is
used to reward excellence." Click
here to read the article.
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Are animals
autistic? Creativity, Mindsets and Autism.
On Sunday 6 May 2007, Professor Snyder presented a keynote
address at the elite, international Forum for European-Australian
Science and Technology Cooperation (FEAST) workshop on Higher
Cognition in Animals. |
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"Championing
Creativity"
The April 2007 edition of Singapore's Prestige magazine features
an article on Professor Snyder's research into creativity and
the Champion Mindset. Click here to read the article. |
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Painting the
Mind
Professor Snyder's research on the creative potential of the
brain is featured in a UK Channel Four documentary, Painting
the Mind, which screened on ABC's Four Corners on 23 April 2007.
Click
here for more information. Painting the Mind has also
been screened in Scandinavia and is awaiting screening in the UK. |
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Comment
on Priming Skills of Autistic Twins
In a letter to the editor of the Journal of Autism and
Developmental Disorders (published online on March 2007),
Professor Snyder responds to a previously published letter
regarding the priming skills of autistic twins in Oliver Sacks'
research. Click
here to read Professor Snyder's comments.
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Creativity
and the Brain
Creativity and the Brain is a new publication edited
by Mario Tokoro and Ken Mogi, described as "a modern primer on
the science of creativity". It features a chapter by Allan Snyder,
titled 'The Genius Within'.
The book is available at www.worldscibooks.com |
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Swiss newspaper
features article on Allan Snyder
The Swiss daily newspaper Tages-Anzeiger of 19 March
2007 featured Allan Snyder's research in an article on the skills
of autistic savants.
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"Talent,
and time to give, the mark of a champion"
In an opinion piece in The Australian on 20 January
2007, Professor Snyder discusses the mindset of champions.
Click
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Think You're
Smart?
The Science Museum of London features the Centre in its new
exhibition on
Neurobotics – The Future of Thinking. This includes exhibits
derived from
the Centre’s recent research on induced savant-like numerosity
with a view
towards a device for amplifying creativity. Click
here to take
the Centre's creativity test on the Science Museum's web site. |
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"Brain
damage can make you brilliant"
The October 2006 issue of Discover magazine featured
an article on the Centre's research into the mind's hidden skills.
Click here
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"Get smarter"
The 10 October 2006 issue of The Bulletin magazine featured
an article on The Centre's research into the mind. Click
here to read the article.
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2026 -
A Vision for the Nation's Future. Part 1 - Tomorrow's World
Professor Allan Snyder's vision for 2026 appeared in Part 1 of
The Australian special feature 2026 - A Vision for
the Nation's Future on 28 October
2006. In it, he predicted the use of "thinking caps"
that will change the way we think and the way we see the world.
Click here
to read the article.
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Sex-based recognition
of angry faces
According to new research just published in the Journal of
Integrative Neuroscience, angry male faces are processed
in the opposite side of the brain to angry female faces.
Researchers at the Centre for the Mind have found that the brain’s
response to male angry faces are processed by the left hemisphere,
while angry female faces are processed by the right hemisphere.
Only females participated in the study. Click
here to read the paper.
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"Magnetic
field' can boost brain'"
London's Daily Telegraph of 8 June 2006 featured an
article on the Centre's latest research on savant-like numerosity
skills.
Click here to read the article. |
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Access your
inner Rain Man
The Centre's latest published research on savant-like numerosity
skills is featured in an article in The Sydney Morning Herald
of 5 May 2006. Click here to read
the article. Professor Snyder was also interviewed on ABC Radio
Newcastle's Morning Show regarding this research.
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Research
paper published in Perception
The Centre's latest research on "savant-like numerosity
skills revealed in normal people by magnetic pulses" has
been published in Perception in its 2006 issue, vol 35, pp. 837
- 845. Click
here to read the paper.
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Expedition
ins Gehirn - Voyage into the Brain
Allan Snyder features in a 3-part German-made documentary, discussing
his research into the mind's hidden skills. The documentary will
be widely screened throughout Europe on Arte, ARD, 3Sat and Phoenix
in February, March, April and May 2006 and has been licenced to
several more countries.
Contact us at info@centreforthemind.com
for screening dates and times.
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"The
controversial professor"
Malaysia's national The Star newspaper of 5 February
2006 features an article on Allan Snyder, with excerpts from his
graduation address "What Makes Extraordinary Success?"
to the Canberra Grammar School of December 6, 2005. Click
here to read the article.
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Russian
Newsweek profiles the Centre's research
Russian Newsweek of 19-25 December 2005 profiles the
Centre's latest research into savant-like skills, via an interview
with the Centre's Director, Professor Allan Snyder. Click
here to read the article (in Russian).
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Invited
address to the Boston Club
On 8 December 2005, Professor Snyder presented "A Possible
Push Pull TMS Therapy for Autism", to an elite assembly of
autism experts at the Nancy Lurie Marks Family Foundation's Boston
Club meeting.
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Interview for
BBC Radio 4, 9 November 2005
Allan Snyder is interviewed on the nature of scientific frontiers
for a series aired on the UK's BBC Radio 4. |
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"One in
a million": Sun-Herald and Sunday Age article
The Sun-Herald of 6 November
2005 features Allan Snyder in an article on the nature of
genius. This article also appeared in the Sunday Age
on the same date.
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New
Scientist special issue on Creativity
The New Scientist Creativity issue of 29 October 2005
features Allan Snyder and his tips on how to become more creative.Click
here to read the article.
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Interview for
BBC Radio 4, aired 30 August 2005
Allan Snyder is interviewed about creative genius for a 3 part
series on creativity aired on the UK's BBC Radio 4.
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Centre's research televised
worldwide, 16 August 2005
Discovery Channel is again rescreening the popular
Savants documentary which features the Centre's research
on creativity and nonconscious skills. Savants was
first televised across America in January 2003 on the Discovery
Channel. Since then it has been screened internationally. The
response from viewers was overwhelming, and the program is continually
rescreened worldwide, most recently in September 2003 and March
2004.
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Malaysian savant Ping Lian visits the Centre
for the Mind
Autistic savant artist Yeak Ping Lian visited the Centre to meet
with Allan Snyder in June 2005, bringing some of his artwork.
For more information on Ping Lian, visit his website at www.pinglian.com
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"Beautiful
minds often hardest to manage"
In the Australian Financial
Review of 26 July 2005 (p.59), Professor Snyder says
employers can get the best from their most intelligent workers
by encouraging them to take risks and confront conventional wisdom. |
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Latest
discussion of the Centre's work in Scientific American
There have been a number of stories mentioning our work in the
Scientific American over the years. The latest appears in the
June 2005 issue of Scientific American Mind in the article
'A Great Attraction".
To view the article, go to the Scientific
American website. |
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"Genius
at work: A lobe out of loop"
Cover story: The Canberra Times Panorama magazine of
26 March 2005. Features a story on Professor Snyder's research
into creativity, championship and accessing the mind's hidden
skills. Click here to read
the article.
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The Australian Financial Review:
"Windmills of the mind"
The 11 March 2005 issue of The Australian Financial Review
features an article on the savant Daniel Tammet, quoting Professor
Snyder's suggestion that he could be the "Rosetta Stone".
Click here to read the article.
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"Bright
minds put Sydney under the spotlight"
Cover story: The Sydney Morning Herald's the (sydney)
magazine of 23 February 2005 features Allan Snyder as one of "six
of our best thinkers and opinion-makers [who] discuss what they
most admire about Sydney, and suggest some timely improvements".
Click here to read. |
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The Guardian
Weekend: "A genius explains"
The Guardian's story of 12 February 2005 discusses Professor
Snyder's views on the extraordinary savant, Daniel Tammet: "'Savants
can't usually tell us how they do what they do,' says Snyder.
'It just comes to them. Daniel can. He describes what he sees
in his head. That's why he's exciting. He could be the Rosetta
Stone.' Snyder, for instance, believes that we all possess the
savant's extraordinary abilities". Read
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"The day
my brain was turned off by a magnet"
In the UK's The Daily Telegraph of 24
January 2005, science reporter Roger Highfield "wanted
to investigate claims by Professsor Allan Snyder...who believes
TMS can act as a creativity-amplifying machine".
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50
Australians who really matter (to the rest of the world)
The Sydney Morning Herald's Spectrum
cover story of 22-23 January 2005 singles out Professor Allan
Snyder as one of the "Australians who really matter (to the
rest of the world)" - one of those who "have made the
world a different place".
This article also appeared in Melbourne's The Age newspaper
of 22 January 2005. |
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Japanese documentary
Power of Memory, 23 November 2004
Japanese NTV airs the documentary Power of Memory, featuring
an interview with Professor Allan Snyder.
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Marconi Award
ceremony - Bologna Italy, October 2004
Larry Page and Sergei Brin, 2004 Marconi Prize winners for the
invention of the Google search engine, together with 2001 Marconi
winner Allan Snyder in Bologna, Italy.
Click on the photo at left to view an enlarged version. |
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The Creativity
Quotient: An Objective Scoring of Ideational Fluency
The Centre's invention of a unique information theoretic measure
of a person's creativity quotient was published in the Creativity
Research Journal in August 2004. This is an integral part
of our corporate creativity and innovation program.
Click at right to view a PDF version of the paper.
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Sydney's Brightest
Minds
The Sydney Morning Herald of 25 August 2004 features Sydney's
Brightest Minds, amongst them Professor Allan Snyder. |
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Let me sleep
on it
The Centre's research into Nonconscious
idea generation was published in the June 2004 issue of Psychological
Reports.
Striking accounts attest to the existence of nonconscious idea
generation - the "let me sleep on it" phenomenon. We
quantify this with a novel methodology. After participants ran
out of ideas on one task, they were actively engaged on another.
Then we resumed the first task. A significant number of new ideas
were generated after the distracting break, suggesting that our
mind continues working on an old question whilst being engaged
on a new one. |
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Centre's
research featured on America's ABC 20/20 program
The 28 May 2004 edition of America's top rated TV news magazine,
ABC's 20/20, featured Professor Snyder's research on
the thinking cap - scientific ways to amplify creativity and to
access the mind's hidden skills. Finding
Your Inner Genius. |
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Professor Allan
Snyder interviewed on CNN
Professor Allan Snyder appeared on CNN's Anderson Cooper
360 show in an interview on the brain. The segment aired
in the U.S. on Wednesday 19 May 2004 at 7:00pm. |
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China's Modern
Weekly International
The 1 May 2004 edition of China's Modern
Weekly International featured a story on Professor Snyder's
research into creativity and accessing the mind's hidden skills
(untranslated). |
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"Learning
how to tap into genius"
The Centre's research into creativity is profiled
in a Sunday Telegraph feature on 25 April 2004. |
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"Brain
pulse machine to unlock the genius within"
The 15 April 2004 edition of The Sydney Morning
Herald features an article on Professor Snyder's research
into creativity. Click
here to read the article.
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"Brain
machine - instant geniuses"
The Herald Sun profiles the Centre's research
on tapping into hidden genius in its 3 April 2004 issue. |
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New Scientist
cover story
The 3 April 2004 edition of New Scientist features
a cover story, The
Genius Machine, on Professor Allan Snyder and his research into creativity.
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Allan Snyder's
radio appearances, April 2004
Allan Snyder conducted two radio interviews this month. On 1
April, he was interviewed by BBC National, discussing the Centre's
Thinking Cap. On 2 April, he was interviewed by 666 ABC Radion
Canberra's Rod Quinn for the Drive program.
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'Genius
Machine'
England's The Sun newspaper of 1 April
2004 featured the Centre's research in it's article 'Genius Machine'.
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Nature piece on "Autistic
genius"
The 1 April 2004 edition of Nature features a piece
by Professor Allan Snyder entitled Autistic
Genius?.
Professor Snyder discusses the possibility of there being two
distinctly different cognitive strategies leading to creativity:
normal and autistic. One strategy is conceptual, the other literal.
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Centre's
research televised worldwide
Discovery Channel is presently (March 2004) rescreening
Savants - a documentary featuring the Centre's research
on creativity and nonconscious skills, produced by a team from
NBC in the U.S. The Centre's research on creativity and nonconscious
skills was first televised across America in January 2003 on
the Discovery Channel. Since then it has been screened internationally.
The response from viewers was overwhelming, and the program
is continually rescreened worldwide, most recently in September
2003.
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Centre's
work featured in Scientific American Mind
The January 2004 issue of Scientific American Mind features
the Centre's latest work in the article 'Island of Genius' on
page.14.
To view the article, go to the Scientific
American Mind website. |
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Sir
Richard Branson awarded Distinguished Fellow Medal
Sir Richard Branson is the recipient of the 2003
Distinguished Fellow Medal of the Centre for the Mind. Sir Richard,
adventurer and corporate champion, spoke on "creativity and
championship". The event was held in the Great Hall of the
University of Sydney and was featured on news programs via all
television networks, radio and the popular press.
Click here for
more information about the event, including a transcript of Sir
Richard's speech. |
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Allan Snyder claims that he can turn on a person's inner Rain
Man, and then turn it off again, with the flick of a switch.
All it takes is a strange set of electrodes - and a radical
new theory of autism, genius and the human brain.
Click on the graphic (left) to access a PDF version
of the full article.
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What Makes
a Champion! Book
The What Makes a Champion! Penguin Book is now available
online. Hear Fifty extraordinary individuals share their insights
on championship. The What Makes a Champion! event was opened by
Nelson Mandela on the eve of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. Click
here to find out more.
To read more about the What Makes a Champion! event visit: www.whatmakesachampion.com
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The Times of London Weekend Review
Can this man put you in
touch with your natural genius? "Allan Snyder claims
his brain machine can stimulate creativity in anyone". The
Centre's research into magnetic brain stimulation is profiled
in The Times of London Weekend Review of 4 October 2003.
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Dalai Lama
Mind and Science Forum
Professor Snyder gave the keynote address
at the unique Dalai Lama Mind and Science Forum held in
Canberra on 23 May 2002.
Click on the photo at left for more information.
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A Der Spiegel special on the Centre's
work
Germany's Der Spiegel
features a story describing the life and work of Allan Snyder,
a prizewinning Australian scientist and Director of the Centre
for the Mind. He is interested in everything from fashion to complex
lightwave models. For the last 16 years he has been researching
savants. His vision is that normal people could learn from mentally
retarded geniuses: "Savants show us who we really are - who
we could be", he says.
Click
here to read an English translation of this article.
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Japanese TBS News visit the
Centre
A team from the Tokyo
Broadcast System TV Network filmed a news documentary about the
Centre's mind laboratory work on the mind's unconscious skills.
The program, What is Human aired in Japan in December
2003.
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What Makes a Champion Event
Nelson Mandela led
champions from all walks of life at our unique event What makes
a Champion? on the eve of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. Our
intellectual Partners were AMP and Ernst & Young. McKinsey
and Company have recently joined with us for our newest initiative
What makes a corporate champion?
For more information on the What Makes a Champion?
event, click on the graphic at right.
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Centre's research televised
worldwide
The Centre's research on creativity and nonconscious
skills was televised across America in January 2003 on the Discovery
Channel. Since then it has been screened internationally. The
response from viewers was overwhelming, and the program is continually
rescreened worldwide, most recently on 12 September 2003.
The documentary entitled "Savants" was
produced by a team from the American TV network NBC and explores
the extraordinary skills of savants, like those of Dustin Hoffman's
character in the Hollywood film Rain Man, and the surprising
discovery that such skills can be turned on in normal people
by switching off part of the brain with magnetic pulses.
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Journal of
Integrative Neuroscience
The Centre's newest research was published in the Journal
of Integrative Neuroscience in December 2003. The research
documented the latest results on turning on savant-like skills
by switching off part of the brain.
The astonishing skills of savants have been suggested to be latent
in everyone, but are not normally accessible without a rare form
of brain impairment. We attempted to simulate such brain impairment
in healthy people by directing low-frequency magnetic pulses into
the left fronto-temporal lobe. Significant stylistic changes in
drawing were facilitated by the magnetic pulses in 4 of our 11
participants. Some of these ‘facilitated’ participants
also displayed enhanced proofreading ability. Our conclusions
are derived from eleven right-handed male university students,
eight of whom underwent placebo stimulation. We examined performance
before, during and after exposure to the stimulation.
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Luxury Magazine features
the Centre
Rain Man for a Day. Luxury
Magazine's Fall 2003 issue features a profile of the Centre's
research on magnetic pulse stimulation of the brain.
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Centre's
research noted in the prestigious 2003 Reith lectures
The Centre's research was singled out in the BBC's prestigious
2003 Reith lectures presented by the eminent neuroscientist Professor
V. Ramachandran.
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Allan
Snyder interviewed on ABC TV, May 2003
The Centre's Director, Professor Allan Snyder was interviewed
by George Negus on ABC TV's New Dimensions program on date.
The interview focused on championship. |
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Discover
Magazine features the Centre's research
The Inner Savant
in the February 2002 issue of Discover magazine explores the Centre's
research into transcranial magnetic stimulation.
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Professor Allan Snyder receives world's
'foremost prize in information technology'
Professor Allan Snyder and Bell Laboratory's Dr Herwig Kogelnik
shared the world's 'foremost prize in communications and information
technology.' The Marconi International prize of US$100,000 and
a sculpture is given in memory of Guglielmo Marconi - the inventor
of wireless transmission.
Kogelnik and Snyder join the ranks of communication greats including
co-inventor of the laser, Nobel laureate Arthur Schawlow; the
father of information theory, Claude Shannon; and space communications
futurist, Arthur C Clarke.
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BBC
Documentary, Fragments of Genius
Fragments of Genius, is a BBC documentary showcasing
Australian Professor Allan Snyder. It first aired on BBC1 on 11
March 2001 and is still aired periodically around the world. To
read the BBC article about the documentary click
here.
Snyder discusses his controversial theory, developed
in collaboration with colleague, Professor John Mitchell, on our
extraordinary, inaccessible skills. He suggests that the skills
can be turned on and off in people by sending magnetic pulses
to the brain - a process called Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation.
Read an earlier BBC article on this topic Turning
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