Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: White Matter, Eidetic Memory, Iraqi Dinar

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Raven"s matrices test (an example of a culture fair test) Dr. jl down (1887) discovered the syndrome. Idiot savant at the time, idiot was accepted category of intellectual impairment at the time. Other reports of ability in time estimation, sensory discrimination, esp (extrasensory perception) Most common: musical ability + blind from birth + autistic. Savant syndrome individuals can have multiple skills, but most often have only 1. All the skills seem to be right hemispheric dominant. All linked with a phenomenal, but narrow memory. Very rare less than 100 reports of prodigious ability. 6 times more likely in males than in females. Got into an accident and ended up with a concussion. After the brain healed, he resulted with an unimaginable ability to perform mathematic abilities. Derek amato: suffered a concussion after hitting his head on the bottom of a pool. When he woke up from the coma, he had the ability to play the piano.