Joanne Ruthsatz is Assistant Professor of Psychology at The Ohio State University, Mansfield. She graduated from Bowling Green State University with a BA in psychology, receiving Phi Beta Kappa. She completed her PhD in Experimental Psychology at Case Western Reserve University. Training on the Mental Retardation Research Grant, she studied the full range of human cognitive ability. Her research interests include discovering the genetic link between autism and the extraordinary talent displayed by child prodigies. Her forthcoming book is titled The Prodigy’s Cousin: The Family Link Between Autism and Extraordinary Talent.
Joanne Ruthsatz
Assistant Professor of Psychology, The Ohio State University, Mansfield
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Thu
Jan 1st
2015
Jan 1st
2015
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Science and the Big Questions: Roundtable Series on the Physical and Spiritual World, the Brain-Mind Connection, and Human Development and Genetics
This series of fourteen roundtables will explore fundamental questions across the sciences and humanities, including knowledge and its limits, infinity, complexity and emergence, consciousness, memory, free will, genius, development, and the nature of human experience.
Sat
Oct 3rd
2015
Oct 3rd
2015
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Understanding Genius
This roundtable will examine competing philosophical and historical conceptions of genius, including the relationship between talent and originality, and whether originality is the defining feature of genius.