Bright splinters of the mind : a personal story of research with autistic savants / Beate Hermelin ; foreword by Michael Rutter.
Material type: TextPublication details: London ; Philadelphia : J. Kingsley, 2001.Description: 188 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cmISBN:- 1853029319 (hbk. : alk. paper)
- 1853029327 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 153.9 HER
- RC553.A88 H475 2001
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Book | National Defence College (NDC) Library | RC553.A88 H47 2001 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 7596/09 |
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.
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