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Brought to general attention by Rainman, and a subject of endless fascination, the extraordinary talents of some people with autism are well-documented, yet little is understood about the nature of their gifts. Drawing on 20 years of research, Beate Hermelin describes not just what autistics savant do, but explains how they do it. She discusses the nature of the talents of savants who are gifted at poetry, foreign language acquisition, the visual arts, music, and calendar and numerical calculations. Not just an exploration of autistic gifts, Bright Splinters of the Mind is a book that reaches…mehr

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Brought to general attention by Rainman, and a subject of endless fascination, the extraordinary talents of some people with autism are well-documented, yet little is understood about the nature of their gifts. Drawing on 20 years of research, Beate Hermelin describes not just what autistics savant do, but explains how they do it. She discusses the nature of the talents of savants who are gifted at poetry, foreign language acquisition, the visual arts, music, and calendar and numerical calculations. Not just an exploration of autistic gifts, Bright Splinters of the Mind is a book that reaches radical conclusions on the very nature of talent and its relationship to intelligence.
Autorenporträt
The late Beate Hermelin was an experimental psychologist working in the area of abnormal development. Beate studied at Jerusalem Art School and gained a degree in psychology from Reading University followed by a PhD from the London Institute of Psychiatry. She held a research appointment at the Medical Research Council, and was an honorary research professor at Goldsmith's College, University of London. She published extensively on psychology and on autism.