Bright Splinters of the Mind: A Personal Story of Research with Autistic Savants

By B. Hermelin, Michael Rutter. 2001

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Circumscribed Interests in Higher Functioning Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders: An Exploratory Study (2007, background): “This potential learning advantage in individuals with ASD has been primarily described in instances of prodigious skills, such as those exhibited by Bautistic savants[ (Hermelin, 2001).”
Understanding autism: insights from mind and brain. (2003, background): “The savant is an individual with an islet of outstanding skill in one area, which can include calendar calculation, musical or artistic competence, often in the presence of modest or even low general intellectual ability (Mottron & Belleville 1993; Hermelin 2002).”
Individual differences in arithmetic (2012, background): “There are a number of reports of musical ‘savants’ who are outstandingly good musical performers despite very low overall IQ (Hermelin, 2001; Miller, 1989; Sloboda, Hermelin, & O’Connor, 1991).”
The systemizing quotient: an investigation of adults with Asperger syndrome or high-functioning autism, and normal sex differences. (2003, background): “…includes the fact that some people with autism spectrum conditions have ‘islets of ability’ in, for example, mathematical calculation, calendrical calculation, syntax acquisition, music or memory for railway timetable information to a precise degree (Baron-Cohen & Bolton 1993; Hermelin 2002).”