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Beate Hermelin - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Do young calendrical calculators improve with age
Journal of child psychology and psychiatry and allied disciplines, 1992Co-Authors: N. O'connor, Beate HermelinAbstract:— The calendrical calculation performance of two 10-year-old children of the same intelligence level (IQ.90) but different calendrical ability, was compared with the performance of eight adult Idiot-Savant calculators. The calculating speeds of the two 10-year olds fell within the range of the reaction times of the adult Savants. No improvement was detectable in a series of successive trials over time, either in speed or accuracy. It is concluded that the young calculators have already inferred rules about calendrical structure and that their performance cannot be accounted for by practice alone, but these Savants use cognitive strategies to aid their performance.
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Talents and preoccupations in Idiots-Savants.
Psychological medicine, 1991Co-Authors: N. O'connor, Beate HermelinAbstract:The question was asked whether a diagnosis of autism or a tendency to repetitive behaviour and preoccupation with a restricted area of interest, were crucial features of Idiot-Savant talents. Answers by caretakers to a questionnaire on these topics revealed that autistic and nonautistic Savants resembled each other closely in preoccupation but differed from controls matched for IQ and diagnosis. In addition, the mentally handicapped showed fewer repetitive tendencies than did autistic controls. It is concluded that independent of diagnosis, preoccupations and repetitive behaviour appear to be closely associated with the manifestation of Idiot-Savant talents.
N. O'connor - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Do young calendrical calculators improve with age
Journal of child psychology and psychiatry and allied disciplines, 1992Co-Authors: N. O'connor, Beate HermelinAbstract:— The calendrical calculation performance of two 10-year-old children of the same intelligence level (IQ.90) but different calendrical ability, was compared with the performance of eight adult Idiot-Savant calculators. The calculating speeds of the two 10-year olds fell within the range of the reaction times of the adult Savants. No improvement was detectable in a series of successive trials over time, either in speed or accuracy. It is concluded that the young calculators have already inferred rules about calendrical structure and that their performance cannot be accounted for by practice alone, but these Savants use cognitive strategies to aid their performance.
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Talents and preoccupations in Idiots-Savants.
Psychological medicine, 1991Co-Authors: N. O'connor, Beate HermelinAbstract:The question was asked whether a diagnosis of autism or a tendency to repetitive behaviour and preoccupation with a restricted area of interest, were crucial features of Idiot-Savant talents. Answers by caretakers to a questionnaire on these topics revealed that autistic and nonautistic Savants resembled each other closely in preoccupation but differed from controls matched for IQ and diagnosis. In addition, the mentally handicapped showed fewer repetitive tendencies than did autistic controls. It is concluded that independent of diagnosis, preoccupations and repetitive behaviour appear to be closely associated with the manifestation of Idiot-Savant talents.
Rossella Di Rosa - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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portrait of antigone as Idiot Savant elsa morante s la serata a colono
The Italianist, 2018Co-Authors: Rossella Di RosaAbstract:This work aims to shed light on Elsa Morante’s portrayal of Antigone in La serata a Colono (1968) and suggests that, behind Antigone’s apparent innocence and illiteracy, Morante develops the protot...
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Portrait of Antigone as Idiot Savant: Elsa Morante’s La serata a Colono
The Italianist, 2018Co-Authors: Rossella Di RosaAbstract:This work aims to shed light on Elsa Morante’s portrayal of Antigone in La serata a Colono (1968) and suggests that, behind Antigone’s apparent innocence and illiteracy, Morante develops the protot...
Leanne M Davis - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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A Phrenological Assesment of Rebecca Harding Davis’s Sketch, “Blind Tom”
2013Co-Authors: Leanne M DavisAbstract:In this essay, I examine how the nineteenth-century cultural phenomenon of phrenology is made apparent in the abolitionist arguments of Rebecca Harding Davis’s “Blind Tom” (1862), a nonfiction character sketch of the popular blind slave and Idiot Savant-musician. The first portion of my argument constructs a probable reality that allows for the influence of Davis’s exposure to phrenology first as a student, then later as a writer. I then perform a critical assessment of “Blind Tom,” revealing how Davis relies upon phrenological terminology, such as that employed by famous phrenologist Orson Squire Fowler, in her descriptions of the musician’s physical appearance in order to call for his freedom, from not only slavery on the Georgian planation he called home, but also, from being paraded as an sideshow and a spectacle before audiences across America. INDEX WORDS: Phrenology, Rebecca Harding Davis, Blindness, Thomas Bethune, Orson Fowler, Realism, Physiognomy, Abolitionism A PHRENOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF REBECCA HARDING DAVIS’S SKETCH, “BLIND TOM”
Davis, Leanne M - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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A Phrenological Assesment of Rebecca Harding Davis’s Sketch, “Blind Tom”
ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University, 2013Co-Authors: Davis, Leanne MAbstract:In this essay, I examine how the nineteenth-century cultural phenomenon of phrenology is made apparent in the abolitionist arguments of Rebecca Harding Davis’s “Blind Tom” (1862), a nonfiction character sketch of the popular blind slave and Idiot Savant-musician. The first portion of my argument constructs a probable reality that allows for the influence of Davis’s exposure to phrenology first as a student, then later as a writer. I then perform a critical assessment of “Blind Tom,” revealing how Davis relies upon phrenological terminology, such as that employed by famous phrenologist Orson Squire Fowler, in her descriptions of the musician’s physical appearance in order to call for his freedom, from not only slavery on the Georgian planation he called home, but also, from being paraded as an sideshow and a spectacle before audiences across America
