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Record Nr.

UNINA9910959793403321

Autore

Hermelin Beate

Titolo

Bright splinters of the mind : a personal story of research with autistic savants / / Beate Hermelin ; foreword by Michael Rutter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Kingsley, 2001

ISBN

1-84642-701-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (199 p.)

Disciplina

616.89/82

Soggetti

Autism - Research

Autistic children

Savants (Savant syndrome)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Outline -- Talent and Intelligence -- Autism and Special Abilities -- Poetry -- Foreign Languages -- Calendar Calculations -- Date Memory -- Numbers -- Drawing -- Pictorial Strategies -- Two Savant Artists -- Musical Memory and Improvisation -- Autism and Savant Ability Revisited -- Subject Index -- Author Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Drawing on 20 years of research, Hermelin describes not just what autistic savants do, but how they do it. In her fascinating and highly informative book she describes her investigations into the nature of the talents of savants who are gifted at poetry, foreign language acquisition, the visual arts, music, and calendar and numerical calculations.