Autism and Talent

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Oup/the Royal Society (2010)
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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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Talent in autism: Hyper-systemizing, hyper-attention to detail and sensory hyper-sensitivity.Simon Baron-Cohen, Emma Ashwin, Chris Ashwin, Teresa Tavassoli & Bhismadev Chakrabarti
Outsider Art and the Autistic Creator.Roger Cardinal
Radical Cytoarchitecture and patterns of cortical connectivity in autism.Manuel Casonova & Juan Trippe
Do calendrical savants use calculation to answer date questions? A functional magnetic resonance imaging study.Richard Cowan & Chris Frith
Precocious realists: perceptual and cognitive characteristics associated with drawing talent in non-autistic children.Jennifer E. Drake & Ellen Winner
Stereotypes of Autism.Douwe Draaisma
How does visual thinking work in the mind of a person with autism? A personal account.Temple Grandin
Perception and appreception in autism: rejecting the inverse assumption.Kate Plaisted Grant & Greg Davis
Autistic Autobiography.Ian Hacking
Introduction: The beautiful otherness of the autistic mind.Francesca Happé & Uta Frith
What aspects of autism predispose to talent?Francesca Happé & Pedro Vital
Assessing musical skills in autistic children who are not savants.Pamel Heaton
Savant skills in autism: Psychometric approaches and parental reports.Patricia Howlin, Susan Goode, Jane Hutton & Michael Rutter
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
The Savant Syndrome: An Extraordinary Condition.Darold A. Treffert
The savant syndrome: an extraordinary condition.Darold A. Treffert
A case study of a multiply talented savant with an autism spectrum disorder.Gregory L. Wallace, Francesca Happé & Jay N. Giedd
Talent in the taxi: a model system for exploring expertise.Katherine Woollett, Eleanor A. Maguire & Hugo J. Spiers

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