Bright Splinters of the Mind

A Personal Story of Research with Autistic Savants

Beate Hermelin
Foreword by Sir Michael Rutter

Paperback: £16.99 / $29.95

2001, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 192pp
ISBN: 978-1-85302-932-5, BIC 2: ABA JM JMP

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Hardback: £29.95 / $70.00

2001, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 192pp
ISBN: 978-1-85302-931-8, BIC 2: ABA JM JMP

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• contents |

1. Outline. 2. Talent and intelligence. 3. Autism and special abilities. 4. Poetry. 5. Foreign languages. 6. Calendar calculations. 7. Date memory. 8. Numbers. 9. Drawing. 10. Pictorial strategies. 11. Two savant artists. 12. Musical memory and improvisation. 13. Autism and savant ability revisited. Index.

Author information

• Beate Hermelin

Subject areas

• Asperger Syndrome, Autism and other Syndromes

Keywords

• autism,
• creativity,
• psychology,
• savants

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