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Explaining and inducing savant skills: privileged access to lower level, less-processed information

I argue that savant skills are latent in us all. My hypothesis is that savants have privileged access to lower level, less-processed information, before it is packaged into holistic concepts and meaningful labels. Owing to a failure in top-down inhibition, they can tap into information that exists i...

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Autor principal: Snyder, Allan
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2677578/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19528023
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2008.0290