Bright splinters of the mind : a personal story of research with autistic savants /
Beate Hermelin ; foreword by Michael Rutter.
- London ; Philadelphia : J. Kingsley, 2001.
- 188 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 179) and indexes.
Machine generated contents note: LIST OF PLATES -- LIST OF FIGURES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Foreword, Sir Michael Rutter --1. Outline --2. Talent and Intelligence --3. Autism and Special Abilities --4. Poetry --5. Foreign Languages --6. Calendar Calculations --7. Date Memory --8. Numbers --9. Drawing --10. Pictorial Strategies --11. Two Savant Artists --12. Musical Memory and Improvisation --13. Autism and Savant Ability Revisited -- SUBJECT INDEX -- AUTHOR INDEX.