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Insight, too, is given by autists themselves. Temple Grandin is a professor of animal science at Colorado State University. She also writes about her experience of being autistic. As she describes in the volume, one of the differences she perceives between her experience and that of most neurotypicals is that she thinks in images. She says her mind is like an internet search engine that searches for photographs. To form concepts, she sorts these pictures into categories. She does not, however, claim that all autistic people think like this. To the contrary, she describes two other sorts: pattern thinkers who excel at maths and music, and verbal specialists who are good at talking and writing, but lack visual skills. The latter might not qualify as autistic under a traditional diagnosis, but slip into the broader autistic spectrum.
The question of how the autistic brain differs physically from that of neurotypicals was addressed by Manuel Casanova of the University of Louisville, in Kentucky. Dr Casanova has spent many years dissecting both. His conclusion is that the main difference is in the structure of the small columns of nerve cells that are packed together to form the cerebral cortex. The cortical columns of those on the autistic spectrum are narrower than those of neurotypicals, and their cells are organised differently.
The upshot of these differences is that the columns in an autistic brain seem to be more connected than normal with their close neighbours, and less connected with their distant ones. Though it is an interpretative stretch, that pattern of connection might reduce a person's ability to generalise (since disparate data are less easily integrated) and increase his ability to concentrate (by drawing together similar inputs).

A. 어휘
insight 통찰력, 見識(견식). perceive 인지하다, 지각하다. image 心象(심상).
form 형성하다. concept 개념. sort 분류하다. category 範疇(범주), 部門(부문).
to the contrary 그와 반대로. two other sorts 두 종류.
pattern 類型(유형), 모양, 무늬, 원형. excel 卓越(탁월)하다. verbal 언어의.
qualify 간주하다, 자격을 부여하다. slip into 범위에 들어가다.
autistic spectrum 자폐증 범위. the autistic brain 자폐증 환자의 뇌. dissect 해부하다.
column 圓柱(원주), 종대. pack 포장하다. cerebral cortex 大腦皮質(대뇌피질).
cortical 피질의. upshot 요지, 결론, 결과. interpretative 해석적인, 해설적인.
stretch 확대해석, 과장. reduce 축소시키다. generalise 일반화하다.
disparate 異種(이종)의, 전혀 별개의, 공통점이 없는. integrate 통합하다.

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Rain and sunshine
Given such anatomical differences, then, what hope is there for the neurotypical who would like to be a savant? Some, possibly. There are examples of people suddenly developing extraordinary skills in painting and music in adult life as a result of brain damage caused by accidents or strokes. That, perhaps, is too high a price to pay. But Allan Snyder of the University of Sydney has been able to induce what looks like a temporary version of this phenomenon using magnetism.
Dr Snyder argues that savant skills are latent in everyone, but that access to them is inhibited in non-savants by other neurological processes. He is able to remove this inhibition using a technique called repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation.
Applying a magnetic field to part of the brain disrupts the electrical activity of the nerve cells for a few seconds. Applying such a field repeatedly can have effects that last for an hour or so. The technique has been approved for the treatment of depression, and is being tested against several other conditions, including Parkinson's disease and migraines. Dr Snyder, however, has found that stimulating an area called the left anterior temporal lobe improves people's ability to draw things like animals and faces from memory. It helps them, too, with other tasks savants do famously wellproofreading, for example, and estimating the number of objects in a large group, such as a pile of match sticks. It also reduces 'false' memories (savants tend to remember things literally, rather than constructing a mnemonic narrative and remembering that).

A. 어휘
anatomical 해부학적. brain damage 뇌 損傷(손상). stroke 뇌출혈.
temporary 일시적인. version 板(판), 변형.
magnetism. 磁力(자력), 磁氣作用(자기작용). latent 잠복한. inhibit 금지하다, 억압하다.
neurological processes 신경학적 처리과정. transcranial 두개골 관통.
cf. cranial 두개골의. repetitive 반복적인.
transcranial magnetic stimulation. 두개골관통 자기자극. apply 적용하다.
magnetic field 磁場(자장). disrupt 분열시키다. treatment 치료. depression 우울증.
migraine 편두통. anterior 앞쪽의. temporal 관자놀이 부분, 시간의, 일시적인.
lobe 葉(엽)[器官(기관)의 둥근 돌출부].
left anterior temporal lobe 左前側頭葉(좌전측두엽). proofreading 校訂(교정).
object 물체, 사물, 목적. pile 더미. match sticks 성냥개비.
literally 문자 그대로, 있는 그대로. construct 구축하다.
mnemonic 기억을 돕는, 기억술의. narrative 이야기, 談話(담화).

B. 구문
- Given such anatomical differences→If we are given such anatomical differences
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