Temple Grandin And Johnson Case Study

Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson, in Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior (2005), recount Grandin's first encounter with real brain tissue. "The pig brain was a big shock for me because when I compared the lower-level structures like the amygdale to the same structures in the human brain I couldn't see any difference at all. The pig brain and the human brain looked exactly alike. But when I looked at the neocortex the difference was huge. The human neocortex is visibly bigger and more folded-up than the animal's, and anyone can see it. You don't need a microscope."