Fascinating article on Autistic Savants

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20 Feb 2005, 2:00 pm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story ... 03,00.html

absolutely fascinating what goes on in a brain!

Are here any people here who feel they are math savants in this manner? That is, people with seemingly magical calculation abilities who see numbers as shapes or hear them as sounds etc.?



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20 Feb 2005, 2:04 pm

There's already a thread about this: http://www.wrongplanet.net/modules.php? ... pic&t=1895
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20 Feb 2005, 2:08 pm

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20 Feb 2005, 2:08 pm

oh foo! I just found it....

Sorry for the duplicate!



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20 Feb 2005, 3:46 pm

lock so people don't accidently post to the wrong one.


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