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An oxymoronic and outdated term for this condition is “ idiot savant.” More modern usage refers to this as savant syndrome, or in some cases autistic savant where diagnosable autism is present.
- Cortical Reorganization
The alternative accounts we have presented here serve as...
- Cortical Reorganization
Idiot savant, savant syndrome, autism. Abstract. People identified as idiot savants have long comprised an identifiable group (a high level of skill in the context of perceived mental deficiency) whose story has mostly been told by psychiatrists and psychologists within a medicalized model of disability that assumes deficiency and seeks ...
Current uses of the term (idiot) savant are reviewed. In contrast to the original use of the term, which emphasized certain kinds of exceptional skill and general mental deficit, recent usage has expanded to include a variety of disabling conditions and levels of exceptionality.
19 Φεβ 2008 · Similarities in behaviour between autistic savants and animals have been suggested, most notably by Temple Grandin in her book Animals in Translation 2005, and this theory seems to have gained some consensus among other neuroscientists who are not specialists in animal cognition. Here we aim to discuss two specific parallels between the ...
This paper describes discrepant mental function in an autistic-savant boy, so labelled because he has the behavior of an autistic child and the cognitive profile of the idiot savant, and suggests that these contradictions are a natural developmental outcome of deficiencies in somatic awareness.
Abstract. Current uses of the term (idiot) savant are reviewed. In contrast to the original use of the term, which emphasized certain kinds of exceptional skill and general mental deficit, recent usage has expanded to include a variety of disabling conditions and levels of exceptionality.
1 Απρ 2006 · Theories to explain the condition are reviewed, newer research findings are highlighted, and the far- reaching implications of the idiot savant syndrome for understanding normal brain function, particularly memory, are outlined.
