By Darold A. Treffert, Daniel Tammet, Peter Leed, Rosa Martinez, Susan Rancer, Shirlee Monty
Savant syndrome is a unprecedented situation during which people with developmental problems have a number of parts of workmanship, skill, or brilliance - 'islands of genius' - that exist by contrast with their total obstacles. This paradox of genius and problem in the comparable individual deals a distinct window on expertise, intelligence and reminiscence, and increases attention-grabbing questions about the hidden mind power inside of us all. What makes the brain of a savant tick? Does this extraordinary power exist inside each one folks? if this is the case, how can or not it's tapped? This distinct account of Dr Darold Treffert's 47-year trip into the brain and global of the savant introduces a few actually amazing contributors, and appears on the explanations, manifestations and implications of this striking situation. It explores recently-discovered phenomena reminiscent of 'genetic memory', the means of a few participants to 'know' issues they by no means realized, and 'acquired savantism', circumstances during which a neuro-typical individual abruptly and spectacularly develops savant-like skills following a trauma equivalent to a head harm or stroke. Explaining that such situations aspect convincingly in the direction of a reservoir of untapped skill - an internal savant potential - in us all, it describes thoughts for locating and tapping this dormant power. primarily, it truly is message is that prodigy and genius can be celebrated and nurtured, and specialists in song, math, and artwork proportion options and methods to aid mom and dad, academics and others higher help those highly gifted participants. This ebook will intrigue an individual who has ever questioned what makes the mind of a savant tick, in addition to clinicians, mom and dad, lecturers, therapists and others who take care of, and approximately, people with savant syndrome.
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1 after hearing it for the first time and he will still play it back perfectly on request. Leslie’s ability to duplicate what he has just heard is tested regularly in the challenge part of his concerts. The audience is always impressed. At a 1989 concert a young girl played “Mississippi Hotdog” as a challenge piece. Leslie listened and then dutifully played it back exactly as he heard it. But toward the end of the exact repeat of the piece, he looked a bit restless, sat more erect and seemed even more excited and eager to play.
These skills can be characterized as non-symbolic, artistic, concrete and directly perceived, in contrast to left hemisphere skills, which are more sequential, logical and symbolic, including language specialization. While “right brain” and “left brain” is a gross oversimplification of brain function, as if the two hemispheres operate entirely independently of each other, the fact is that the two brain hemispheres do specialize in certain functions, language being one such example. In their book Cerebral Lateralization, Geschwind and Galaburda (1987) use the term “pathology of superiority” to describe compensatory growth leading to superior development of some portions of the brain as an accompaniment to and consequence of poorer development of other portions.
I address hyperlexia, and my experience with this differential diagnosis, in more detail on the savant syndrome website. Likewise, with respect to adults, not every absent-minded professor has Asperger syndrome. ” The temptation to label all exceptional talents as autistic disorder or Asperger syndrome, rather than recognizing prodigy, genius or simply precociousness as distinct entities, needs to be resisted lest “diagnostic creep” erroneously blurs the lines between these circumstances and voids all meaningful classification.
