Child genius .. Nine years and graduated from the Faculty of Engineering

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Belgian child Laurent Simmons has caught the world's attention in recent days after he announced he would graduate in December from Eindhoven University of Technology with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, while he was only nine years old.

According to Simmons' parents, CNN said the child had shown very high abilities from a very young age, prompting his teachers to challenge those abilities through successive tests to predict his level, and then he already showed that he was able to pass the most complex university tests.

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Laurent Simmons' case is very rare, but it does exist, and from time to time someone comes out with extraordinary brain abilities.We had seen a similar situation in the Arab world several months ago for the Egyptian student Omar Osman, who had a PhD in mathematics at the age of only 22 years.

Omar, who showed a mathematical genius from a young age, offered his junior professors to go to study at the German University in Cairo because he was at a university level, and he successfully passed the tests of the first academic year, and in the summer vacation in secondary school he enrolled in a French school of mathematics. Complete his way.

This condition is called a child prodigy, a child with adult skills at a young age under ten.

According to a study published in the journal Nature Neuroscience in 2001, positron emission tomography (CT) of the brain of a group of these children suggests that they think directly through long-term working memory, allowing them to retain and process more information more easily.

The study also showed a clear development in the scope of the cerebral cortex, the region of the cerebral cortex responsible for processing visual information (images and distances), located in the back of the brain.

“Working memory” is one of the most basic executive functions of the brain, manipulating information, and then categorizing memories as pieces and linking them together, so that we can perform complex functions and understand deep thoughts, in the sense that they fundamentally affect our intelligence.

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Dr Larry Vanderwert of the American Psychological Association supports a research approach he has worked on for the past decade that the cerebellum area is primarily responsible for these abilities, not because they create them but because they speed up their work with what is like an "emotional impulse" that drives By the child to excel.

On the other hand, a research team from the University of Ohio believes that child geniuses are a very good opportunity to understand - and possibly cure - autism. In a 2016 book entitled "The Genius Child's Cousin," the researchers readily explain that we can say that a genius child is a child who "was supposed to be autistic, but didn't."

Thus, from this point of view, the absence of autism has allowed the other skills that often accompany it, mainly creative talents, to branch out, diversify and spread in a fertile environment. Here, the research team of the University of Ohio believes that examining genius children more accurately, may one day reveal About the causes of autism and there is a cure for it.