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	Allan Snyder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Allan Whitenack Snyder is an Australian optical physicist/visual scientist, born in Philadelphia and Foundation Director of the Centre for the Mind.
		He holds the chair of Visual Sciences, the chair of Optical Physics and the Peter Karmel Chair of Science and the Mind at the Australian National University.
		Snyder's work is behind three main branches of science.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Allan_Snyder (118 words)

	The Australian Institute of Political Science
		Having moved to London, Snyder, with two colleagues, provided the blueprint for optical fibre, and designed a range of devices essential to the operation of the telecommunications network, such as beam splitters and switches to route and control light as it moves between optical fibres.
		Eventually, Snyder's desire to pursue his research in visual sciences, and particularly to work with the Department of Neurobiology at the Australian National University, brought him to Australia, but not before his interests in anthropology had led him to explore the Pacific in a bark canoe before alighting here.
		In addition to being Foundation Director of the Centre for the Mind, Allan Snyder continues his research in optics and vision as Foundation Head of the Optical Sciences Centre at the ANU, where he holds the Chair of Visual Sciences and the Chair of Optical Physics.
	www.tallpoppies.net.au /cavalcade/snyder.htm (779 words)

	Celebrity Speakers - The Christine Maher Group
		Allan Snyder discoveries in vision are hailed in Nature as "breaking a 19th century mindset", while his advances in physics are described in Science magazine as "a giant step forward" and featured in the Economist.
		Allan Snyder controversial hypothesis that everyone possesses the extraordinary skills of savants (like Dustin Hoffman in 'Rainman') is featured in The New York Times, the Times of London and the BBC documentary Fragments of Genius, while he is declared "brave and original" in a recent New Scientist cover story.
		Previously, Allan Snyder was a John Guggenheim Fellow at the Yale School of Medicine and a Royal Society Guest Research Fellow in the department of physiology at Cambridge University.
	www.celebrityspeakers.com.au /speaker_bio.asp?Speaker_Index_Text=236 (310 words)

	Savant for a Day - New York Times
		That Snyder was able to induce these remarkable feats in a controlled, repeatable experiment is more than just a great party trick; it's a breakthrough that may lead to a revolution in the way we understand the limits of our own intelligence -- and the functioning of the human brain in general.
		Snyder's theories are bolstered by the documented cases in which sudden brain damage has produced savant abilities almost overnight.
		Snyder's eyes contracted inquisitively as he pieced together the unfamiliar facts (brown smoke, just outside Sydney) and eased them into a familiar narrative framework (the forest fires that had been raging all week).
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9506EFD81538F931A15755C0A9659C8B63&sec=health&pagewanted=all (2566 words)

	Allan Snyder
		Allan is the Foundation Head of the Optical Sciences Centre and Foundation Director of the Centre for the Mind.
		Allan delivered the 1996 Mills Oration, "Shedding light on creativity", to the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, last presented by the Governor General of Australia, the inaugural Edwin Flack lecture for the Australian Olympic Committee, and the keynote address "Mindset Breaking" at the conference "the mind's new science".
		Allan is concerned with unifying nonlinear waves from the perspective of linear waves, especially with applications to light guiding light.
	wwwrsphysse.anu.edu.au /osc/PB/ProfSnyder.html (735 words)

	Columbia News ::: Fiber Optic Pioneers Win 2001 Marconi Award in Telecommunications
		Kogelnik's and Snyder's achievements, the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia will host a discussion on trends and discoveries in optical technology and the coming revolution in photonic crystals by the two honorees on Dec. 4 at 4:00 p.m.
		Snyder's key contributions laid the foundations for three totally different areas of science: optical fiber telecommunications, visual photoreceptor optics and futuristic light-guiding-light technologies.
		Snyder is head of the Optical Sciences Centre at Australian National University and director of the Centre for the Mind, a joint project between Australian National University and the University of Sydney, where he and his colleagues study creativity and mindset breaking, inspired by their research on the astounding abilities of autistic savants.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/news/01/11/marconi.html (838 words)

	DCITA - Allan Snyder: Breaking through the barriers of our beliefs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Allan Snyder talks to DATA on the importance of being objective
		Professor Snyder was honoured for laying the foundations in three areas of optical science: optical fibre telecommunications, visual photoreceptor optics and light-guiding-light technologies.
		Here Professor Snyder talks to DATA about his work in the field of optical sciences, and about the Centre for the Mind (a joint venture of the University of Sydney and Australian National University) where he is Director.
	www.dcita.gov.au /ict/publications/data_magazine/issue_4/allan_snyder_breaking_through_the_barriers_of_our_beliefs (908 words)

	Catalyst: Thinking Cap - ABC TV Science
		Professor Allan Snyder believes that savant type abilities "reside equally in all of us." He believes we all have access to this fundamental mechanism but with our higher order cognitive processing we are unable to tap into it.
		To challenge Allan's theory, the same tests were also performed with magnetic pulses applied to the fronto-temporal cortex - the region of the brain known to malfunction in savants.
		Professor Allan Snyder: Yeah now that we know those brainwaves are responsible for those types of thoughts then we can do without the magnetic pulses and you could monitor your brainwaves on the monitor here and train yourself to enhance them.
	www.abc.net.au /catalyst/stories/s498832.htm (962 words)

	USATODAY.com - Kansas State's Snyder retiring after 17 seasons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		And although Snyder's health might not be at issue, he talked several times about the toll his schedule — long hours spent at the office, breaking down film and preparing game plans from the predawn dark to late at night — has taken on his family life.
		Snyder went 1-10 in his first season, but his team steadily improved.
		Snyder had his team on the brink of playing for a national title in 1998 before Texas AandM upset the previously undefeated Wildcats in the Big 12 championship game.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/college/football/big12/2005-11-15-snyder-retirement_x.htm (747 words)

	FEAT Daily Newsletter 1-27-02 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		But Allan Snyder, a vision researcher and award-winning physicist who is director of the Center for the Mind at the University of Sydney and the Australian National University, has advanced a new explanation of such talents.
		Snyder was fascinated by the processing power required to accomplish such a feat.
		Snyder’s theory began with art, but he came to believe that all savant skills, whether in music, calculation, math, or spatial relationships, derive from a lightning-fast processor in the brain that divides things—time, space, or an object—into equal parts.
	www.vaccinationnews.com /DailyNews/January2002/FEATDailyNewsletter1-27-02.htm (2942 words)

	ABC News: Finding Your Inner Genius
		That was one of the first questions I had for Dr. Allan Snyder when I visited his lab at the University of Sydney in Australia.
		Snyder peered over the circular lenses of his glasses and smiled.
		Snyder wants to suppress that filtering process, so we can see things in a kind of raw state — as autistic savants do.
	abcnews.go.com /Technology/story?id=99521&page=1 (436 words)

	Centre for the Mind - Director
		Allan received the world's "foremost prize in communication and information technology", the Marconi International Prize, in New York city in December 2001.
		Allan holds prestigious chairs at two of Australia's pre-eminent universities, The Australian National University and the University of Sydney.
		Professor Snyder with the Dalai Lama at the
	www.centreforthemind.com /director/index.cfm (308 words)

	Studio Guest - Professor Allan Snyder:
		Professor Allan Snyder is the Chair of Science and the Mind at The Australian National University and the University of Sydney and he joins George in the studio to discuss the power of the mind.
		PROFESSOR ALLAN SNYDER: Well, I think, you know, all the years I've studied what makes a champion it seems to be what characterises a champion...
		PROFESSOR ALLAN SNYDER: But I think if you really want to do something, you know, it's the willpower to want to do something, whether it's to live in the iron lung and live as many years and eventually paint, or whether it is that your driving passion...
	www.abc.net.au /dimensions/dimensions_people/Transcripts/s860097.htm (807 words)

	LEFT IN THE DARK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Professor Allan Snyder has proposed that such functions are latent in everyone and are suppressed by the activity of the ‘evolutionary advanced’ rational side of the brain.
		Snyder thinks the human brain has ‘traded in’ these skills for the benefits of the logical reasoning mind, however his research may be beginning to uncover a much larger story.
		Dr Alan Snyder at The Centre for the Mind is currently attempting to release latent higher functions by switching off the rational left brain.
	www.kaleidos.org.uk /home.htm (2643 words)

	Wired News: Thinking Cap or Dunce's Hat?
		Professor Allan Snyder and Dr. Elaine Mulcahy say they have completed experiments that proved they could increase the creative function of the brain using magnetism.
		Snyder believes autistic savants have access to very fast, early brain processing, the unconscious skills that calculate, say, the trajectory of a softball without the batter being aware.
		Snyder believes that autistic savants can achieve their phenomenal skills because the executive function is damaged, and so inhibiting executive function will allow non-autistic people to access savant skills.
	www.wired.com /news/technology/0,1282,51421,00.html (801 words)

	Light Guiding Light
		Poladian, A.W. Snyder, and D.J. Mitchell, "Spiralling spatial solitions," Opt.
		A.W. Snyder and A.P. Sheppard, "Collisons, steering and guidance with spatial solitons," Opt.
		Allan W Snyder holds the Peter Karmel Chair of Science and the Mind at the Institute of Advanced Studies and is Head of the Optical Sciences Centre.
	people.deas.harvard.edu /~jones/solitons/papers/lgl/lgl.html (2684 words)

	Tune In,Turn Off
		Snyder and Mitchell formulated their theory from analysis of many existing studies of savants-mainly mathematically gifted ones.
		Their idea is different from Snyder and Mitchell's because they assume that savant processing never happens in non-autistic people-consciously or unconsciously.
		Imaging studies show that brain activity in newborn babies is limited to regions we are unconscious of in adults but which register incoming sensory information and respond to it by generating urges, emotions and automatic behaviour.
	www.fortunecity.com /emachines/e11/86/turnoff.html (2659 words)

	Brain-pulse machine to unlock the genius within - SpecialsHealthScience - www.smh.com.au
		Snyder, whose research is published this month in the Journal of Integrated Neuroscience, calls it the creativity machine and is adamant that the pulses are harmless.
		Snyder believes that creativity machines might eventually be a valuable tool in schools.
		Snyder says the strategy could be used to help adults acquire accent-free second languages and to improve recall and detail.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/04/15/1081838831480.html?oneclick=true (473 words)

	Kalliope Stage 110 in the Shade Reviews
		Played by Broadway actor Allan Snyder, he's loud, melodramatic and clearly false, but eventually Lizzie falls for his assurances that she's beautiful.
		Both Ellison and Snyder are compelling to watch as they slowly reveal their desires.
		Allan Snyder is every inch a convincing Starbuck, roaring with boundless joy as he tries to coax moisture out of the dry blue air and money out of gullible believers.
	www.kalliopestage.com /110reviews.htm (2980 words)

	Mind Power News Issue No. 48
		Snyder's technique has been safely applied medically to treat depression and schizophrenia by using the pulses to temporarily suppress activity in some areas of the brain.
		When Snyder's assistant marked a target with a pen on my blue skullcap, it was used to aim the magnetic pulses at the left fronto-temporal lobe of my brain, where (among many other things) I form concepts.
		When Snyder published the results of his long-term experiments (in the Journal of Integrative Neuroscience), he reported that that was how many of the participants had responded.
	www.mindpowernews.com /048.htm (3239 words)

	News & Events - The University of Sydney
		New research by acclaimed scientist, Professor Allan Snyder, predicts that creativity can be increased in people by switching off part of the brain.
		Professor Snyder's creativity machine was developed at the Centre for the Mind, a joint venture between The Australian National University and the University of Sydney.
		Professor Snyder's intriguing research is the cover feature in the 3 April 2004 edition of New Scientist and discussed in articles in the 1 April 2004 edition of Nature, and the April issue of the Journal Integrated Neuroscience.
	www.usyd.edu.au /news/84.html?newsstoryid=209 (329 words)

	Edge: ALAN SNYDER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		ALLAN SNYDER, Director of The Centre for the Minds, holds the Peter Karmel Chair of Science and the Mind at The Australian National University, where he is also Head of the Optical Science Centre and Professor of Visual Science and Optical Physics.
		At the University of Sydney he holds the 150th Anniversary Chair of Science and the Mind.
		He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London and is the society's 2001 Clifford Paterson Prize Lecturer.
	www.edge.org /3rd_culture/bios/snyder.html (100 words)

	Wired 11.12: The Key to Genius
		Trained as a physicist, Allan Snyder helped usher in the modern fiber-optics era with his breakthroughs in optical waveguide transmission in the 1960s.
		At the Centre for the Mind in Sydney, Snyder has built on the work of Treffert, Sacks, and others to suggest that autistic savants have "privileged access" to the mind's raw data before it's parsed and filtered by the brain's executive functions.
		Where Snyder and his mentors part ways is on how to go about switching off the conceptual mind.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/11.12/genius.html?pg=5&topic=&topic_set= (1044 words)

	AnotherThink: Seeing the Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		We have no trouble seeing the forest—trees, bushes, blades of grass and squirrels, these are the things we miss.
		Allan Snyder works with people who are severely brain damaged, especially autistic savants.
		Dr. Snyder's theory is that an autistic person's specific mental deficit frees the brain to work at its full potential in other, undamaged, areas.
	www.anotherthink.com /contents/essays_on_faith/20040604_seeing_the_details.html (891 words)

	Put On Your Thinking Cap - News by InformationWeek
		Known for his work in optics and telecommunications, Snyder now heads the Centre for the Mind, a joint venture between the Australian National University (where he's also a professor) and the University of Sydney.
		Snyder and his colleagues are investigating what he calls "mind physics"--ways to use technology to make the brain work more efficiently and to expand creativity.
		Snyder theorized that some of the damaged parts of her brain were the areas that let healthy people see the world subjectively.
	www.informationweek.com /story/IWK20020104S0013 (409 words)

	The Washington Monthly
		Allan Snyder, a researcher in Australia, has been experimenting with a device that directs electromagnetic pulses into the frontal lobes of subjects, and has found that it increases performance on a variety of mental tasks:
		This is genuinely remarkable, especially considering that Snyder has only been doing this for a short while and we still know virtually nothing about what's really going on in the brain.
		I looked up Allan Snyder's web site, hoping to see a more thorough discussion, but these TMS brain-improvement results don't seem to have been published in peer-reviewed journals (I am willing to give them the benefit of doubt for this; hopefully they are preparing such a report).
	www.washingtonmonthly.com /archives/individual/2003_06/001482.php (4481 words)

	Public Speaker Australia : Leadership Speakers
		In 2001, Professor Allan Snyder received the world's "foremost prize in communication and information technology", the Marconi International Prize.
		Allan Bolton is recognised internationally as an expert in health, lifestyle, motivation and human performance.
		He developed the series of health and fitness courses that set the standard in 42 countries for professional accreditation in the Fitness Industry, was co-developer of the internationally acclaimed GutBusters Waist Loss Program for Men, and the key developer of the Australasian Weight Watchers for Men Program.
	www.celebrityspeakers.com.au /brsearch_return.asp?Topic_Text=Change (306 words)

	Autism Chat: Professor Allan Snyder
		Host Stella_9msn says: Anne says: Dr Snyder, my son has autistic spectrum disorder and I feel that when younger he had savant capabilities, but we have stifled them trying to make him conform to the real world.
		Host Stella_9msn says: proteus says: Professor Snyder, is it possible to tap into these abilities without the use of the machines mentioned before...
		Dr Snyder is getting ready to go to the airport and will be able to continue our chat in five minutes.
	sunday.ninemsn.com.au /sunday/cover_transcripts/article_812.asp (2866 words)

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