Bright splinters of the mind : a personal story of research with autistic savants / / Beate Hermelin ; foreword by Michael Rutter
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| Autore: |
Hermelin Beate
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| Titolo: |
Bright splinters of the mind : a personal story of research with autistic savants / / Beate Hermelin ; foreword by Michael Rutter
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Kingsley, 2001 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (199 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 616.89/82 |
| Soggetto topico: | Autism - Research |
| Autistic children | |
| Savants (Savant syndrome) | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Bright splinters of the mind |
| ISBN: | 1-84642-701-0 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910959793403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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