Extraordinary People : Understanding Savant Syndrome,9780595092390

Extraordinary People : Understanding Savant Syndrome

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ISBN13: 9780595092390
ISBN10: 059509239X
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-06-30
Publisher(s): Iuniverse Inc
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1(5)
Prologue 6(9)
Savant Syndrome: Defining the Condition 15(8)
ONE: GENIUS AMONG US
The Genius of Earlswood Asylum and Other Early Savants
23(14)
Music: Language for an Endless Infancy
37(22)
If This Is June 6th, It Must Be Friday: The Calendar Calculators
59(21)
The Brilliant and the Backward: The Lightning Calculators
80(15)
``An Exaltation of Memory'': The Mnemonists
95(13)
The Cats' Raphael and Other ``Rara Avis''
108(14)
From Mr. A to Mr. Z: Other Savant Skills
122(11)
TWO: PORTRAITS
Leslie
133(14)
Ellen
147(8)
Alonzo
155(8)
THREE: GENIUS WITHIN US
Explaining the Inexplicable
163(37)
``Great Vigor of Memory''---in the Savant and in the Rest of Us
200(25)
New Savants and New Findings
225(29)
How Do They Do It?
254(12)
And What of the Future?
266(27)
A Smoother Pebble
293(27)
Rain Man, The Movie/Rain Man, Real Life
320(10)
Appendix 330(2)
Bibliography 332(11)
Index 343(16)
Epilogue 359(38)
About the Author 397

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