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Autism and Talent
Francesca Happé & Uta Frith (eds.)
Oup/the Royal Society (2010)
Abstract
Why do many autistic people develop outstanding abilities in domains like drawing, music, computation, and reading? What aspects of autism predispose some to talent? This book explores the origin and prevalence of exceptional talent, its basis in the brain, the current theories, and the representation of talent and autism in biography and fiction
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A case study of a multiply talented savant with an autism spectrum disorder.Gregory L. Wallace, Francesca Happé & Jay N. Giedd
Do calendrical savants use calculation to answer date questions? A functional magnetic resonance imaging study.Richard Cowan & Chris Frith
Enhanced perception in savant syndrome: patterns, structure, and creativity.Laurent Mottron, Michelle Dawson & Isabelle Soulieres
Explaining and inducing savant skills: privileged access to lower level, less processed information.Allan Snyder
Perception and appreception in autism: rejecting the inverse assumption.Kate Plaisted Grant & Greg Davis
Precocious realists: perceptual and cognitive characteristics associated with drawing talent in non-autistic children.Jennifer E. Drake & Ellen Winner
Radical Cytoarchitecture and patterns of cortical connectivity in autism.Manuel Casonova & Juan Trippe
Savant skills in autism: Psychometric approaches and parental reports.Patricia Howlin, Susan Goode, Jane Hutton & Michael Rutter
Talent in autism: Hyper-systemizing, hyper-attention to detail and sensory hyper-sensitivity.Simon Baron-Cohen, Emma Ashwin, Chris Ashwin, Teresa Tavassoli & Bhismadev Chakrabarti
Talent in the taxi: a model system for exploring expertise.Katherine Woollett, Eleanor A. Maguire & Hugo J. Spiers
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