Search

Our guest for this article was Dr. Daniel Memmert, Professor and Executive Head of the Institute of Exercise Training and Sport Informatics at the German Sport University Cologne, Cologne (Germany). A lifelong sports player and enthusiast, Memmert’s research is at the intersection of human movement science (cognition and motor activity), sport psychology (attention and motivation), computer science in sports (pattern identification and simulation), talent, children and elite research (Trainings-/PE-Curricula) and research methods.

Temple Grandin is an engineer, a doctor of animal science, and a professor at Colorado State University. She has achieved all this even while having been diagnosed as autistic when she was two years old. In her recent book The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum, she discusses her efforts to understand how humans develop and use different ways of thinking through interviewing autistic individuals in different fields and disciplines. Through this she has identified three different ways people organize, process, remember and use new information: thinking in words, thinking in pictures, and thinking in patterns or structures.