Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ667260
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Publication Date: 2003
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The Skills and Methods of Calendrical Savants.
Cowan, Richard; O'Connor, Neil; Samella, Katerina
Intelligence, v31 n1 p51-65 2003
Proposed three criteria to distinguish calendrical savants whose skills depend on memory from those who calculate and applied these to 10 calendrical savants. Results are discussed in relation to views that calendrical savants imply the existence of a modular mathematical intelligence or unconscious integer arithmetic. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Computation, Intelligence, Mathematical Aptitude, Memory, Special Education
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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