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List: Savants.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IdeasthesiaSavant skills are usually found in one or more of five major areas: art, memory, arithmetic, musical abilities, and spatial skills.[1] The most common kinds of savants are calendrical savants,[6][7] "human calendars" who can calculate the day of the week for any given date with speed and accuracy, or recall personal memories from any given date. Advanced memory is the key "superpower" in savant abilities.[6]
Approximately half of savants are autistic;
- It is estimated that 10% of those with autism have some form of savant abilities.[1][8][9]
- It has been suggested that individuals with autism are biased towards detail-focused processing and that this cognitive style predisposes individuals either with or without autism to savant talents.[12] Another hypothesis is that savants hyper-systemize, thereby giving an impression of talent.
[T]he other half often have some form of central nervous system injury or disease.[1]
- In some cases, savant syndrome can be induced following severe head trauma to the left anterior temporal lobe.[1] Savant syndrome has been artificially replicated using transcranial magnetic stimulation to temporarily disable this area of the brain.[16]
1. Hikari Ōe
2. Stephen WiltshireŌe was born developmentally disabled. Even after an operation, Ōe remained visually impaired, developmentally delayed, epileptic and with limited physical coordination. He does not speak much.[1] As an adult, Hikari creates chamber music.[2]
Autistic savant.[1] [A]rchitectural artist.
https://www.stephenwiltshire.co.uk/search.aspx?find=Big+BenHe is known for his ability to draw a landscape from memory after seeing it just once.
3. Derek Paravicini
https://www.youtube.com/user/derekparavicini/about?disable_polymer=1Paravicini was born extremely prematurely, at 25 weeks, along with a twin sister who did not survive birth.[1] His blindness was caused by an overdosage of oxygen therapy given during his time in a neonatal intensive care unit. This also affected his developing brain, resulting in his severe learning disability.[2] He also has autism.He has absolute pitch and can play any piece of music after hearing it once.
4. Kim Peek
5. Orlando Serrell"Megasavant" with an exceptional memory. [Has] developmental disability related to congenital brain abnormalities (macrocephaly,[5] damage to the cerebellum, and agenesis of the corpus callosum[7]). He could speed through a book in about an hour and remember almost everything he had read, memorizing vast amounts of information in subjects ranging from history and literature, geography and numbers to sports, music and dates. Peek read by scanning the left page with his left eye, then the right page with his right eye. According to an article in The Times newspaper, he could accurately recall the contents of at least 12,000 books.[6]
In psychological testing, Peek scored low average (87) on general IQ tests.[11].
"Acquired savant."
6. Matt Savage[H]e was struck by a baseball on the left side of his head on August 17, 1979, when he was ten years old. for a long while, he suffered from a headache.[1] Eventually, the headache ended, but Serrell soon noticed he had the ability to perform calendrical calculations of amazing complexity.[2] He can also recall the weather,[3] as well as (to a varying degree) where he was and what he has done for every day since the accident.[4]
Autistic savant.
https://www.youtube.com/user/mattsavagejazz/about?disable_polymer=1At age six, Savage taught himself to read piano music,[6] and has extremely high intelligence. Among Savage's talents are hyperlexia[1] and perfect pitch.[7]
7. Alonzo Clemons
Acquired savant.
8. Daniel Tammet[H]e suffered a severe brain injury as a child that left him with a developmental disability (with an IQ in the 40-50 range), but able to create very accurate animal sculptures out of clay. Clemons can create a sculpture of almost any animal, even if he has seen only a glimpse of it.[1] He is also able to create a realistic and anatomically accurate three-dimensional rendering of an animal after only looking at a two-dimensional image for mere moments.[2] He is most well known for his life-size renderings of a horse, but most of his works are smaller, and accomplished in less than an hour.[3]
Autistic savant.
9. Blind Tom WigginsAs a young child, he suffered epileptic seizures and was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome . He is a polyglot; knows ten languages: English, Finnish, French, German, Lithuanian, Esperanto, Spanish, Romanian, Icelandic, and Welsh.[9] In Embracing the Wide Sky, he writes that he learned conversational Icelandic in a week and then appeared on an interview on Kastljós on RÚV speaking the language.[17][41] He set the European record for reciting pi from memory to 22,514 digits in five hours and nine minutes on 14 March 2004.[34][35][36][37][38][39][40]
Autistic savant. By age four he reportedly had acquired some piano skills by ear, and gained access to the piano. By age five Tom reportedly had composed his first tune.
"One of his most remarkable feats was the performance of three pieces of music at once. He played 'Fisher's Hornpipe' with one hand and 'Yankee Doodle' with the other and sang 'Dixie' all at once. He also played a piece with his back to the piano and his hands inverted."
[...]
"It was a strange sight to see him walk out on stage with his own lips—another man's words—introduce himself and talk quietly about his own idiocy. There was insanity, a grotesque horribleness about it that was interestingly unpleasant. One laughs at the man's queer actions, and yet, after all, the sight is not laughable. It brings us too near to the things that we sane people do not like to think of."[/QUOTE]
10. George Widener
Self-taught artist who employs his mathematical/calculating capability to create art ranging from complex calendars and numerical palindromes to Rembrandt-like antiquarian landscapes to Asian scrolls.
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