ANTH 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Orthographic Depth, Kinsey Scale, Dyslexia
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Dog remains- 40 dog bones- at least 6 individuals. Inability to recognize and comprehend symbols, particularly written words. Runs in families, more common in monozygotic twins; heritable. More common in languages with deep orthography. Both autism and schizophrenia also have to do with chromosome 6. Rates of dyslexia in italy than us. Think has to do with hearing sounds. Very deep in english, shallow in italian less ambiguous. Think a lot of it has to do with how you perceive sounds, how you think about. Deep orthography" sounds when you write/read: sexual orientation. 7 point kinsey scale used in most us studies. Also volunteer bias, pressure for social acceptable answers. Cannot project some habits onto all people. Small group of people to represent everyone. No gay gene, but several links to biology. Ex: size of group of cells =-- 2x larger in homosexual males. interstitial nuclei of. Represents a much larger group. anterior nucleus 3.
