Understanding Savant Syndrome: Symptoms and Abilities
General Mental Function
* Mental retardation in variable degrees
* Extreme unevenness of mental abilities: deficits in adaptive behaviors and social intelligence, often juxtaposed with superior abilities
Savant Skills:
* Most common savant skills: calculating calendar dates, complex mathematical calculations, music, drawing/art,
cartography, mechanical/spatial tasks
* Other skills also seen: rote memory, reciting extensive information from sources such as phonebooks, reciting historical
facts/dates, or listing sports statistics.
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