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Veridical mapping in savant abilities, absolute pitch, and synesthesia: an autism case study
An enhanced role and autonomy of perception are prominent in autism. Furthermore, savant abilities, absolute pitch, and synesthesia are all more commonly found in autistic individuals than in the typical population. The mechanism of veridical mapping has been proposed to account for how enhanced per...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3927080/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24600416 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00106 |
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author | Bouvet, Lucie Donnadieu, Sophie Valdois, Sylviane Caron, Chantal Dawson, Michelle Mottron, Laurent |
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description | An enhanced role and autonomy of perception are prominent in autism. Furthermore, savant abilities, absolute pitch, and synesthesia are all more commonly found in autistic individuals than in the typical population. The mechanism of veridical mapping has been proposed to account for how enhanced perception in autism leads to the high prevalence of these three phenomena and their structural similarity. Veridical mapping entails functional rededication of perceptual brain regions to higher order cognitive operations, allowing the enhanced detection and memorization of isomorphisms between perceptual and non-perceptual structures across multiple scales. In this paper, we present FC, an autistic individual who possesses several savant abilities in addition to both absolute pitch and synesthesia-like associations. The co-occurrence in FC of abilities, some of them rare, which share the same structure, as well as FC’s own accounts of their development, together suggest the importance of veridical mapping in the atypical range and nature of abilities displayed by autistic people. |
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spelling | pubmed-39270802014-03-05 Veridical mapping in savant abilities, absolute pitch, and synesthesia: an autism case study Bouvet, Lucie Donnadieu, Sophie Valdois, Sylviane Caron, Chantal Dawson, Michelle Mottron, Laurent Front Psychol Psychology An enhanced role and autonomy of perception are prominent in autism. Furthermore, savant abilities, absolute pitch, and synesthesia are all more commonly found in autistic individuals than in the typical population. The mechanism of veridical mapping has been proposed to account for how enhanced perception in autism leads to the high prevalence of these three phenomena and their structural similarity. Veridical mapping entails functional rededication of perceptual brain regions to higher order cognitive operations, allowing the enhanced detection and memorization of isomorphisms between perceptual and non-perceptual structures across multiple scales. In this paper, we present FC, an autistic individual who possesses several savant abilities in addition to both absolute pitch and synesthesia-like associations. The co-occurrence in FC of abilities, some of them rare, which share the same structure, as well as FC’s own accounts of their development, together suggest the importance of veridical mapping in the atypical range and nature of abilities displayed by autistic people. Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-02-18 /pmc/articles/PMC3927080/ /pubmed/24600416 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00106 Text en Copyright © 2014 Bouvet, Donnadieu, Valdois, Caron, Dawson and Mottron. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Bouvet, Lucie Donnadieu, Sophie Valdois, Sylviane Caron, Chantal Dawson, Michelle Mottron, Laurent Veridical mapping in savant abilities, absolute pitch, and synesthesia: an autism case study |
title | Veridical mapping in savant abilities, absolute pitch, and synesthesia: an autism case study |
title_full | Veridical mapping in savant abilities, absolute pitch, and synesthesia: an autism case study |
title_fullStr | Veridical mapping in savant abilities, absolute pitch, and synesthesia: an autism case study |
title_full_unstemmed | Veridical mapping in savant abilities, absolute pitch, and synesthesia: an autism case study |
title_short | Veridical mapping in savant abilities, absolute pitch, and synesthesia: an autism case study |
title_sort | veridical mapping in savant abilities, absolute pitch, and synesthesia: an autism case study |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3927080/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24600416 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00106 |
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