Autism and talent / edited by Francesca Happé, Uta Frith.

Contributor(s): Happé, Francesca | Frith, UtaMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, 2010Description: xx, 222 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780199560141 (hbk.)Subject(s): Autism | Savants (Savant syndrome)DDC classification: 616.85882 LOC classification: RC553.A88 | A98 2010
Contents:
1. The savant syndrome : an extraordinary condition : a synopsis : past, present, future / Darold A. Treffert -- 2. Savant skills in autism : psychometric approaches and parental reports / Patricia Howlin, Susan Goode, Jane Hutton and Michael Rutter -- 3. What aspects of autism predispose to talent? / Francesca Happé and Pedro Vital -- 4. Talent in autism : hyper-systemizing, hyper-attention to detail and sensory hyper-sensitivity / Simon Baron-Cohen, Emma Ashwin, Chris Ashwin, Teresa Tavassoli and Bhismadev Chakrabarti -- 5. Enhanced perception in savant syndrome : patterns, structure and creativity / Laurent Mottron, Michelle Dawson and Isabelle Soulières -- 6. Perception and apperception in autism : rejecting the inverse assumption / Kate Plaisted Grant and Greg Davis -- 7. Explaining and inducing savant skills : privileged access to lower level, less-processed information / Allan Snyder -- 8. Talent in the taxi : a model system for exploring expertise / Katherine Woollett, Hugo J. Spiers and Eleanor A. Maguire -- 9. Do calendrical savants use calculation to answer date questions? : a functional magnetic resonance imaging study / Richard Cowan and Chris Frith -- 10. A case study of a multiply talented savant with an autism spectrum disorder : neuropsychological functioning and brain morphometry / Gregory L. Wallace, Francesco Happé and Jay N. Giedd -- 11. Radial cytoarchitecture and patterns of cortical connectivity in autism / Manuel Casanova and Juan Trippe -- 12. How does visual thinking work in the mind of a person with autism? : a personal account / Temple Grandin -- 13. Assessing musical skills in autistic children who are not savants / Pamela Heaton -- 14. Precocious realists : perceptual and cognitive characteristics associated with drawing talent in non-autistic children / Jennifer E. Drake and Ellen Winner -- 15. Outsider Art and the autistic creator / Roger Cardinal -- 16. Autistic autobiography / Ian Hacking -- 17. Syereotypes of autism / Douwe Draaisma.
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"Originating from a theme issue first published in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The savant syndrome : an extraordinary condition : a synopsis : past, present, future / Darold A. Treffert -- 2. Savant skills in autism : psychometric approaches and parental reports / Patricia Howlin, Susan Goode, Jane Hutton and Michael Rutter -- 3. What aspects of autism predispose to talent? / Francesca Happé and Pedro Vital -- 4. Talent in autism : hyper-systemizing, hyper-attention to detail and sensory hyper-sensitivity / Simon Baron-Cohen, Emma Ashwin, Chris Ashwin, Teresa Tavassoli and Bhismadev Chakrabarti -- 5. Enhanced perception in savant syndrome : patterns, structure and creativity / Laurent Mottron, Michelle Dawson and Isabelle Soulières -- 6. Perception and apperception in autism : rejecting the inverse assumption / Kate Plaisted Grant and Greg Davis -- 7. Explaining and inducing savant skills : privileged access to lower level, less-processed information / Allan Snyder -- 8. Talent in the taxi : a model system for exploring expertise / Katherine Woollett, Hugo J. Spiers and Eleanor A. Maguire -- 9. Do calendrical savants use calculation to answer date questions? : a functional magnetic resonance imaging study / Richard Cowan and Chris Frith -- 10. A case study of a multiply talented savant with an autism spectrum disorder : neuropsychological functioning and brain morphometry / Gregory L. Wallace, Francesco Happé and Jay N. Giedd -- 11. Radial cytoarchitecture and patterns of cortical connectivity in autism / Manuel Casanova and Juan Trippe -- 12. How does visual thinking work in the mind of a person with autism? : a personal account / Temple Grandin -- 13. Assessing musical skills in autistic children who are not savants / Pamela Heaton -- 14. Precocious realists : perceptual and cognitive characteristics associated with drawing talent in non-autistic children / Jennifer E. Drake and Ellen Winner -- 15. Outsider Art and the autistic creator / Roger Cardinal -- 16. Autistic autobiography / Ian Hacking -- 17. Syereotypes of autism / Douwe Draaisma.

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