Another group which may have some innate memory advantage are autistic savants.

And well into the 1990's, academic researchers referred to autistic savants as idiots.

That's how the brains of autistic savants accomplish such feats.

Spitz studied concepts such as mental age, and the abilities of autistic savants.

Like autistic savants, individuals with hyperthymesia have an unusual and obsessive interest in dates.

Autistic savants can display extraordinary but highly specific talents, while at the same time remaining withdrawn or uncommunicative to the point of constant silence.

Trevor Tao has a double degree in maths and music and will soon be featured in a book on autistic savants.

"The Twins", about autistic savants.

And so, by extension, the extraordinary skills of autistic savants have been regarded as flukes, almost inhuman feats that average minds could never achieve.

Each of us is constantly assaulted with sensory information; that raw data which Snyder believes autistic savants have trouble converting into mindsets.

Snyder argues that all those assumptions - about everything from the way autistic savants behave down to the basic brain functions that cause them to do so - are mistaken.

For her, "hyper-specificity" - the act of focusing on the trees rather than the forest - is also the quality that connects what she calls "animal geniuses" with autistic savants.

His account of abilities of autistic savants has been questioned by the researcher Makoto Yamaguchi, and Daniel Tammet shared this view.

Special Talents of Autistic Savants, w: Loraine Obler, Deborah Fein (red.)

An estimated 0.5% to 10% of individuals with ASD show unusual abilities, ranging from splinter skills such as the memorization of trivia to the extraordinarily rare talents of prodigious autistic savants.

The twins of the title are a pair of autistic savants who enjoyed brief fame on television for performing feats of memory and calculation, though they themselves were incapable of living without close institutional care.

Some rare mental calculators are autistic savants, with a narrow area of great skill and poor mental development in other directions, but many are people of normal mental development who have simply developed advanced calculating ability.

Another group which may have some innate memory advantage are autistic savants.

The term autistic savant was also used as a diagnosis for this disorder.

And well into the 1990's, academic researchers referred to autistic savants as idiots.

That's how the brains of autistic savants accomplish such feats.

Only recently has medicine put a name to this mysterious phenomenon, which is now called "autistic savant syndrome."

A memoir by an autistic savant who can perform extraordinary mathematical calculations.

The autistic savant Derek Paravicini was born at 25 weeks.

Spitz studied concepts such as mental age, and the abilities of autistic savants.

A 15-year-old autistic savant sets out to solve the mystery of a neighbor's dead poodle.

Christopher Boone, the 15-year-old protagonist, is an autistic savant.

Derek Paravicini is a blind autistic savant and musical prodigy.

He is an autistic savant with outstanding abilities in mathematics, sequence memorising and language learning.

Like autistic savants, individuals with hyperthymesia have an unusual and obsessive interest in dates.

His oldest brother, Bastian, was an autistic savant.

An autistic savant is an autistic person with extreme talent in one or more areas of study.

Richard Wawro, 52, autistic savant internationally recognized artist, cancer.

Kazan is an autistic savant who can quickly do prime factorizations and thus identify the trapped rooms.

Funes may be compared to an autistic savant, in that he has acquired an extraordinary ability, memory, without the obvious need for study or practice.

Raymond is an autistic savant, who has an eidetic memory but is incapable of looking after himself.

He was an autistic savant.

Diagnoses of his condition initially focused on post-traumatic stress disorder but it was at the time thought he might be an autistic savant.

Autistic savants can display extraordinary but highly specific talents, while at the same time remaining withdrawn or uncommunicative to the point of constant silence.

The movie "Rain Man" may educate the public on one facet of autism, the autistic savant, but it has created an amusing dilemma too.

Charlie Babbit, the autistic savant of "Rain Man," did.