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  2. Genie (feral child) - Wikipedia

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    Genie was the last, and also second surviving, of four children born to parents living in Arcadia, California.Her father worked in a factory as a flight mechanic during World War II and continued in aviation afterward, and her mother, who was around 20 years younger and from an Oklahoma farming family, had come to Southern California as a teenager with family friends who were fleeing the Dust ...

  3. Linguistic development of Genie - Wikipedia

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    Beginning in January 1971 scientists administered a series of neurolinguistics tests on Genie, making her the first language-deprived child to undergo any detailed brain examinations. Based on tests and observations in everyday situations, doctors concluded that she was right-handed and that her brain was extremely right-hemisphere dominant for ...

  4. Portal:Greater Los Angeles/Selected biography/4 - Wikipedia

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    The Salk Institute, where researchers analyzed the data from the first of several brain exams on Genie. Genie (born 1957) is the pseudonym of a feral child who was the victim of extraordinarily severe abuse, neglect and social isolation. Her circumstances are recorded prominently in the annals of abnormal child psychology.

  5. Innateness hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    The case of the feral child Genie provides evidence for the critical-period hypothesis. When discovered, she was without language. When discovered, she was without language. Genie's subsequent language-acquisition process was studied, whereby her linguistic performance, cognitive and emotional development was deemed abnormal.

  6. Susan Curtiss - Wikipedia

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    Another test, the CYCLE-N (Curtiss Yamada Comprehensive Language Evaluation—Neurological), was designed specifically for adults and for mapping grammar in the brain. [28] These tests are administered to children and adults with various conditions including autism, Specific Language Impairment (SLI), and dementia to determine which language ...

  7. Image showing purported effects of alcohol is actually ...

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    The claim: Image shows brain deformed by alcohol consumption. A Nov. 20 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows images of two brains.One is deformed, discolored and labeled "DRINKERS (sic ...

  8. Critical period hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    Feral children are those not exposed to language in infancy/childhood due to being brought up in the wild, in isolation and/or confinement. A classic example is 'Genie', a victim of child abuse who was deprived of social interaction from birth until discovered aged thirteen. Her father had judged her "retarded" at birth and had chosen to ...

  9. Language deprivation - Wikipedia

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    The most well-documented case of a language-deprived child was that of Genie. Genie was discovered in 1970 in the family home, where she was recognized as highly abnormal. A social welfare agency took her into custody and admitted Genie into a hospital. Before discovery, Genie had lived strapped and harnessed into a chair.