PSYC3338 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Rote Learning, Hyperlexia, Encephalocele
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Above normal ability to read with a below normal ability to understand language. Something characteristic of most children with intellectual disabilities. Usually once in adolescence this normalizes, but for him it didn"t. Encephalocele bulb in the back of her head. Starts as a flat disk of cells that rolls into the neural tube . This has to close for it to become the ns from head to spinal cord. Part of constellation of brain abnormalities associated with asd and williams. Savant syndrome = damage to left hemi. Agenesis corpus callosum the corpus callosum never developed. So, more than 1 congenital ns defect. Iq = 87 (what you would expect with someone with down"s) Has asd characteristics, but he is not autistic. Someone on the asd spectrum wouldn"t be able to understand puns. Has encyclopedic memory for things that are declarative memory (facts) Skills began with rote memory ( verbal adhesion ) Later in life, developed musical skills with april greenan.
