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

Title
Bright splinters of the mind : a personal story of research with autistic savants / Beate Hermelin ; foreword by Sir Michael Rutter.
Author
Hermelin, Beate.
Publication
London ; Philadelphia : J. Kingsley, c2001.

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188 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.
Summary
"The extraordinary talents of some people with autism are well-documented, yet little is understood about the nature of their gifts. Drawing on 20 years of research, Beate Hermelin describes not just what autistic savants do, but how they do it. During her studies she and her collaborators examined savants alongside neurotypical individuals talented in the same domain, as well as people with the same level of intelligence as the savants but with no special abilities. 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. Bright Splinters of the Mind is not only a thorough exploration of autistic gifts, it is also a book which reaches radical conclusions on the very nature of talent and its relationship to intelligence."--Jacket.
Subject
  • Aptitude
  • Autism > Research
  • Autistic Disorder > psychology
  • Autistic children > Case studies
  • Creativity
  • Mental Processes
  • Savants (Savant syndrome) > Case studies
Genre/Form
Case studies.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 179) and indexes.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
2. Talent and Intelligence 27 -- 3. Autism and Special Abilities 39 -- 4. Poetry 49 -- 5. Foreign Languages 63 -- 6. Calendar Calculations 77 -- 7. Date Memory 92 -- 8. Numbers 105 -- 9. Drawing 120 -- 10. Pictorial Strategies 129 -- 11. Two Savant Artists 139 -- 12. Musical Memory and Improvisation 156 -- 13. Autism and Savant Ability Revisited 168.
ISBN
  • 1853029319 (alk. paper)
  • 1853029327 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2001029113
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library