Once you can read and learn faster, you can read and learn faster about everything. I started digging into all the research that’s been done and all the past stuff that the Greeks discovered about memory to the modern-day researchers. I got excited about the possibilities of this that I started digging into the neuroscience. The beauty of that skill is once you can read and learn faster, you can read and learn faster about everything. I did a six-week course and paid a whole bunch of money to learn this stuff in person. They’ve done a lot of training in speed reading, memory and accelerated learning. I met someone whose wife and he had developed what I would later call a methodology for super learning. About that time, I got lucky that I was interning in a VC office. I would have to go out there and network, go to events and meet people. I knew that I wasn’t going to be able to do what I used to do, which is lock myself in my bedroom, work twice as hard, catch up and figure it out on my own. As most business-related things, an MBA is more about the network than about the content. I was locking myself in a bedroom and taking a lot of prescription medications.įor my second degree, I got accepted to a condensed MBA program, which was two years’ worth of content in ten months. I was overcompensating by working a lot harder than everyone else. That allowed me to at least close the gap, catch up with my students, go to college and do all those great things. Fortunately for me in high school, I discovered prescription medication. I always like to tell people you don’t run a podcast called Becoming SuperHuman because you were completely in love with yourself growing up. How did you get so enamored by these different memory techniques and go down that whole rabbit hole? You’re a world expert in memory so let’s start with memory. I’m so glad we finally had a chance to catch up. Therefore, this work that suggests the effect of Primary Auditory Cortex in characterizing the dominance of language processing in high functioning young adults seems to be highly significant in discriminating different groups in autism spectrum.Īutism deep belief networks fMRI functional connectivity language processing primary auditory cortex.Jonathan, it’s great to have you on the show. Since it is known that autism involves enhanced, but imbalanced components of intelligence, the reason behind the supremacy of high functioning group in language processing and region responsible for enhanced connectivity has been recognized. Results were validated using DBN measuring the classification accuracy of 85.85% for high functioning and 81.71% for the low functioning group. It was found that the additional interaction of the Primary Auditory Cortex lying in the temporal lobe, with other regions of interest complimented their enhanced connectivity. Results showed increased functional connectivity in high functioning subjects. These parameters have been fed to Deep Belief Networks (DBN) to classify the subjects under consideration as either LFA or HFA. Brain connectivity parameters such as Granger Causality (GC) and Phase Slope Index (PSI) have been calculated for the individual groups. The functional connectivity maps have been plotted through graph theory procedures. The language processing regions of the brain, along with Default Mode Network (DMN) have been considered for the analysis. The task-based functional Magnetic Resonance Images (fMRI) of both high and low functioning autistic groups were acquired from ABIDE database, for 58 low functioning against 43 high functioning individuals while they were involved in a defined language processing task. This work addresses the overlapping phenomenon present in autism spectrum through functional connectivity patterns along with brain connectivity parameters and distinguishes the classes using deep belief networks.

However, specific mechanisms associated with their functional capabilities are still under research. Generally, high functioning individuals are known to exhibit higher intelligence and better language processing abilities.

Brain mapping studies have revealed that autism individuals have overlaps in brain behavioural characteristics. The spectrum of autism encompasses High Functioning Autism (HFA) and Low Functioning Autism (LFA).

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