Native savant talent and acquired skill

Autism

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 199-214

  Pring, Linda ^a   Hermelin, Beate ^a   Buhler, Michael ^b   Walker, Iain ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b City and Guilds Art School   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Art; Autism; Education; Learning; Savant

Indexed keywords

EID: 0343569771     PISSN: 13623613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1362361397012006     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. BINET, A. (1894) Psychologie des grondes calculateurs (et de jouers d'échecs). Paris: Hatalle.
2. CHARMAN, T. & BARON-COHEN, S. (1993) 'Drawing Development in Autism: The Intellectual to Realism Shift', British Journal of Developmental Psychology 11: 171-85.
3. CREAK, E.M. (1961) 'Schizophrenic Syndrome in Children', Lancet 2: 818.
4. DOWN, J. LANGDON (1887) On Some of the Mental .Afflictions of Childhood and Youth. London: Churchill.
5. DOWKER, A., HERMELIN, B. & PRING, L. (1996) 'A Savant Poet', Psychological Medicine 26: 913-34.
6. FEIN, D., LUCCI, D. & WATERHOUSE, L. (1990) 'Brief Report: Fragmented Drawings in Autistic Children', Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 20: 263-9.
7. FODOR, J.A. (1983) The Modularity of Mind. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
8. FRITH, U. (1989) Autism: Explaining the Enigma. London: Blackwell.
9. HAPPÉ, F.G.E. (1994) 'Weschler IQ Profile in Theory of Mind in Autism: A Research Note', Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 35 (8): 1461-71.
10. HAPPÉ, F.G.E. (1997) 'Central Coherence and Theory of Mind in Autism: Reading Homographs in Context', British Journal of Developmental Psychology 14 (1): 1-12.
11. HERMELIN, B., PRING, L. & HEAVEY, L. (1994) 'Visual and Motor Functions in Graphically Gifted Savants', Psychological Medicine 24: 673-80.
12. KANNER, L. (1943) 'Autistic Disturbance of Affective Contact', Nervous Child 2: 217-50.
13. LEWIS, v. & BOUCHER, J. (1991) 'Skill, Content and Generative Strategies in Autistic Children's Drawings', British Journal of Developmental Psychology 9: 393-416.
14. LOCKYER, L. & RUTTER, M. (1970) 'A Five to Fifteen Year Follow-Up Study of Infantile Psychosis: Patterns of Cognitive Ability', British Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology 9: 152-63.
15. MILLER, L.K. (1989) Musical Savants: Exceptional Skill in the Mentally Retarded. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Earlbaum.
16. MOTTRON, L. & BELLEVILLE, S. (1993) 'A Study of Perceptual Analysis in a High-Level Autistic Subject with Exceptional Graphic Abilities', Brain and Cognition 23: 279-309.
17. MOTTRON, L. & BELLEVILLE, S. (1995) 'Perspective Production in a Savant Autistic Draughtsman', Psychological Medicine 25: 639-48.
18. O'CONNOR, N. & HERMELIN, B. (1992) 'Do Young Calendrical Calculators Improve with Age?', Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 33 (5): 907-12.
19. OZONOFF, S., ESTRAYER, D.L., MCMAHON, W.M. & FILLONX, F. (1994) 'Executive Function Abilities in Autism and Tourette Syndrome: An Information-Processing Approach', Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 35 (6): 1015-32.
20. PRING, L. & HERMELIN, B. (1993) 'Bottle, Tulip and Wineglass: Semantic and Structural Picture Processing by Savant Artists', Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 34 (8): 1365-85.
21. PRING, L., HERMELIN, B. & HEAVE Y, L. (1995) 'Savants, Segments, Art and Autism', Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 36 (6): 1065-76.
22. SCOTT, F.J. & BARON-COHEN, S. (1996) 'Imagining Real and Unreal Things: Evidence of a Dissociation in Autism', Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 8 (4): 371-82.
23. SPEARMAN, C. (1927) The Abilities of Man. New York: Macmillan.
24. TREFFERT, D.A. (1989) Extraordinary People. New York: Bantam.
25. VENTER, A., LORD, C. & SCHOPLER, E. (1992) 'A Follow-Up Study of High Functioning Autistic Children', Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 33: 489-507.
26. WECHSLER, D. (1981) Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale - Revised. New York: Psychological Corporation.
27. WITKIN, H.A., OLTMAN, P.K., RESKINE, E. & KARP, S. (1971) A Manual for the Embedded Figures Test. Palo Alto, CA: Consulting Psychological Press.