Approximately 10 percent of autistic children display savant skills. A savant, from the French for “clever” or “learned” is a person with incredible brilliance in a specific area. Autistic people with savant skills have exceptional talent, mostly seen in the arts, music and math.
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Savant syndrome , sometimes abbreviated as savantism , is not a recognized medical diagnosis, but researcher Darold Treffert describes it as a rare condition in which persons with developmental dis...
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A dysfunctional attention hypothesis of the basis of savant skills was tested with a series of computerized tasks that assessed the ability to divide, shift, direct, and sustain attention. ... The Medscape Journal ... Allergy & Clinical Immunology...
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Using two-point parametric analysis in stratification with a cutoff point of a savant skill score of 0.16, our families failed to demonstrate linkage to 15q11-q13. In addition, ordered subset analysis (OSA) using SSF as Our findings do not support savant skills as an informative phenotypic subset for linkage in our sample...
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This article is about savant skills in Asperger Syndrome and Autism. ... There seems to be a correlation between autism, asperger syndrome and savant skills. The meaning of the French word savant is "learned one" and researchers have been puzzled for years over why some people have savant skills and why some people don't.
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To identify savant skills, the researchers sent the parents of the autistic adults a questionnaire asking them to identify and describe, using specific examples, any outstanding skills and talents that were present "at a level that would be unusual even for normal people".
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Savant skills are occasionally found in people with other types of intellectual disability and in the non-disabled population, so most researchers use the term 'savant syndrome' instead of autistic savant. A range of savant abilities;
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I argue that savant skills are latent in us all. My hypothesis is that savants have privileged access to lower level, less-processed information, ...
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SAVANT-LIKE SKILLS EXPOSED IN NORMAL PEOPLE BY; SUPPRESSING THE LEFT FRONTO-TEMPORAL LOBE; ALLAN W. SNYDER1,2, ELAINE MULCAHY1,2, JANET L. TAYLOR3, D. JOHN MITCHELL1, PERMINDER SACHDEV4, AND SIMON C. GANDEVIA3;
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Most investigations of savant skills in autism are based on individual case reports. The present study investigated rates and types of savant skills in 137 ...
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