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Fragments of Genius: The Strange Feats of Idiots Savants

paperbackJanuary 1, 1992
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ISBN-13: 9780415071697 ISBN-10: 0415071690
Publisher
Routledge
Binding
paperback
Published
January 1, 1992
Weight
0.5 lbs
Dimensions
22.20×1.90×14.60 cm

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Fragments of Genius: The Strange Feats of Idiots Savants by Howe, Michael J. A.. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780415071697.

This text provides an account of "idiots savants" - those remarkable individuals who are simultaneously retarded yet capable of quite extraordinary achievements. Their talents include outstanding artistic and musical achievement, mental arithmetic at incredible speed, and calendar calculating, involving extremely difficult questions about calendar dates. Michael Howes findings encourage the reader to reconsider existing views about the manner in which human skills are organized and contradicts the widely accepted belief that a persons different abilities are interdependent and centrally controlled.