Calendrical savants: Exceptionality and Practice

Cognition

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Cowan, Richard ^a   Carney, Daniel P J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autism; Intelligence; Practice; Savant

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALENDRICAL CALCULATION; COGNITION; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; LEARNING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MENTAL FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKILL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AUTISTIC DISORDER; COGNITION; HUMANS; MALE; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); REACTION TIME; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 33745231139     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2005.08.001     Document Type: Article

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