This showed up on my Facebook feed today:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jul/14/genie-feral-child-los-angeles-researchers
I only skimmed it because I'm a bit overwhelmed with a work deadline at the
moment, but I thought I'd post it because it seemed interesting. Plus, I
can't believe Gen
Very interesting question Sally. I found an article in the Journal of
Royal Society of Medicine that seems to support this idea generally and
provides excellent graphs on the sleep patterns of normal brains vs.
damaged brains during sleep. See what you think.
http://jrs.sagepub.com/content/95/12
In the Nova documentary about Genie, the large sleep spindles shown on her EEG
are given as evidence of early brain damage. Does anyone know if this
interpretation is still correct? Not my area of expertise, and I would like to
be able to follow up on that point with students after seeing the do
