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What are the specific abilities displayed by savants?

April 26, 2017abilities savants

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What are the specific abilities displayed by savants?

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As a rule, they are right-hemisphere skills: music, art, math, spatial dexterity and calendar calculation — what Treffert calls an “intriguingly narrow range of special abilities” made possible by a spectacular deployment of mechanical, or concrete (also called “implicit”) memory.