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Numbers and letters: exploring an autistic savant's unpracticed ability.

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Pring, Linda Hermelin, Beate
Copyright Year	2002
Abstract	This paper describes an individual with autism and high-level calendar calculation ability who could perform a set of unpracticed letter/number association tasks. The savant's performance was compared with that of two control participants, one a departmental secretary and the other a professor of mathematics. The facility with which the savant could master the rules governing the relationships between the series of items suggests that he possessed a flexibility of mental processing transcending his ability of calendar calculation. Furthermore, he could recalibrate previous knowledge to solve new hitherto unpracticed tasks. When presented with novel problems, the savant, unlike the mathematician, made no initial errors at all on any of the presented tasks, thereby indicating his fast and spontaneous recognition of new rules and of new relationships between items. It is concluded that a cognitive style of 'weak central coherence' as adopted by autistic savants may protect single representations from being retained in the form of stable enduring wholes, and that such a segmentation strategy may allow for the transformation, reorganization and reconstruction of the relationship between single items of information.
Starting Page	322
Ending Page	327
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
Alternate Webpage(s)	http://research.gold.ac.uk/448/1/Pring_and_Hermelin_NC409-00.pdf
PubMed reference number	12221146v1
Volume Number	8
Issue Number	4
Journal	Neurocase
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Autistic Disorder Entity Name Part Qualifier - adopted Mental Processes Rule (guideline) Whole biologic segmentation
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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