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CENTRE'S RESEARCH TELEVISED WORLDWIDE, MARCH 2004
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.

CENTRE'S WORK FEATURED IN SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MIND, JANUARY 2004
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.

THE NEW YORK TIMES, 22 JUNE 2003
In this article, 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.

THE TIMES WEEKEND REVIEW, OCTOBER 2003
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.

THE WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN MAGAZINE, SEPTEMBER 2003
The Weekend Australian Magazine (The Fashion Issue) features the Centre's research on magnetic pulse stimulation of the brain.

A DER SPIEGEL SPECIAL ON THE CENTRE'S WORK, 22 SEPTEMBER 2003
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", says Professor Snyder. Click here to read an English translation of this article.

JAPANESE TBS NEWS VISITS THE CENTRE FOR THE MIND
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.

CENTRE'S RESEARCH TELEVISED WORLDWIDE, JANUARY 2003
The Centre's research on creativity and nonconscious skills was televised across America in January 2003 on the Discovery Channel, in the documentary Savants. 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.

JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE NEUROSCIENCE, DECEMBER 2003
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.

LUXURY MAGAZINE FEATURES THE CENTRE'S RESEARCH, 2003
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.

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. Read the full text

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.

DISCOVER MAGAZINE FEATURES THE CENTRE'S RESEARCH, FEBRUARY 2002
The Inner Savant in the February 2002 issue of Discover magazine explores the Centre's research into transcranial magnetic stimulation.

SNYDER WINS MARCONI PRIZE, 2001
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. Read on from Marconi Foundation. What the press said

BBC DOCUMENTARY, FRAGMENTS OF GENIUS, 11 MARCH 2001
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.

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