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idiot savant
Known as:
idiots savant
, idiot savants
, savants
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Intellectual disability, severe
Mentally Disabled Persons
severely mentally retarded
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2009
2009
Infinite series from history to mathematics education
G. Bagni
2009
Corpus ID: 8024217
In this paper an example from the history of mathematics is presented and its educational utility is investigated, with reference…
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2005
2005
The Streaming Search Engine That Reads Your Mind
J. Townley
2005
Corpus ID: 59665885
The company is called Taalee, brainchild of Indian semantic savant Amit Sheth, PhD and Pinnacle founder Ajay Chopra. It does…
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2003
2003
Implementing the 1913 Mental Deficiency Act: Competing Priorities and Resource Constraint Evident in the South West of England before 1948
P. Dale
2003
Corpus ID: 59085888
Mental deficiency policy and practice remain controversial topics within the wider history of institutional and community care…
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Review
1993
Review
1993
An idiot savant calendrical calculator with Gilles de la Tourette syndrome: implications for an understanding of the savant syndrome
J. Moriarty
,
Howard Ring
,
Mary M. Robertson
Psychological Medicine
1993
Corpus ID: 31379268
Synopsis We describe the existence of the savant syndrome in association with Gilles de la Tourette's Syndrome (GTS). The…
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Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
Talents and preoccupations in idiots-savants
Neil O'Connor
,
B. Hermelin
Psychological Medicine
1991
Corpus ID: 22985
SYNOPSIS The question was asked whether a diagnosis of autism or a tendency to repetitive behaviour and preoccupation with a…
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1990
1990
Art and accuracy: the drawing ability of idiot-savants.
B. Hermelin
,
Neil O'Connor
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and…
1990
Corpus ID: 36396700
The accuracy and the artistic merit of drawings produced by graphically gifted idiot-savants and by artistically able normal…
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1990
1990
The recognition failure and graphic success of idiot-savant artists.
Neil O'Connor
,
B. Hermelin
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and…
1990
Corpus ID: 2844659
Three groups of subjects, an idiot-savant group, a group of mentally handicapped subjects matched for IQ, and normal artistically…
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Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
The memory structure of autistic idiot-savant mnemonists.
N. O’connor
,
B. Hermelin
British Journal of Psychology
1989
Corpus ID: 24388883
The memory organization of six autistic mnemonists was investigated in two experiments. The first of these provided some evidence…
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Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
Extraordinary People: Understanding "Idiot Savants"
D. Treffert
1989
Corpus ID: 141995252
1983
1983
The idiot savant: flawed genius or clever Hans?
B. Hermelin
,
N. O’connor
Psychological Medicine
1983
Corpus ID: 12813772
Binet & Simon (1909), although the originators of the concept of intelligence in its modern sense, nonetheless regarded it as a…
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