Autism and talent / edited by Francesca Happé, Uta Frith.

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

xx, 222 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

"Originating from a theme issue first published in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the beautiful otherness of the autistic mind / Francesca Happé and Uta Frith -- The savant syndrome : an extraordinary condition : a synopsis : past, present, future / Darold A. Treffert -- Savant skills in autism : psychometric approaches and parental reports / Patricia Howlin ... [et al.] -- What aspects of autism predispose to talent? / Francesca Happé and Pedro Vital -- Talent in autism : hyper-systemizing, hyper-attention to detail, and sensory hyper-sensitivity / Simon Baron-Cohen ... [et al.] -- Enhanced perception in savant syndrome : patterns, structure, and creativity / Laurent Mottron, Michelle Dawson, and Isabelle Soulières -- Perception and apperception in autism : rejecting the inverse assumption / Kate Plaisted Grant and Greg Davis -- Explaining and inducing savant skills : privileged access to lower level, less-processed information / Allan Synder -- Talent in the taxi : a model system for exploring expertise / Katherine Woollett, Hugo J. Spiers, and Eleanor A. Maguire -- Do calendrical savants use calculation to answer date questions? : a functional magnetic resonance imaging study / Richard Cowan and Chris Frith -- A case study of a multiply talented savant with an autism spectrum disorder : neuropsychological functioning and brain morphometry / Gregory L. Wallace, Francesca Happé, and Jay N. Giedd -- Radial cytoarchitecture and patterns of cortical connectivity in autism / Manuel Casanova and Juan Trippe -- How does visual thinking work in the mind of a person with autism? : a personal account / Temple Grandin -- Assessing musical skills in autistic children who are not savants / Pamela Heaton -- Precocious realists : perceptual and cognitive characteristics associated with drawing talent in no-autistic children / Jennifer E. Drake and Ellen Winner -- Outsider art and the autistic creator / Roger Cardinal -- Autistic autobiography / Ian Hacking -- Stereotypes of autism / Douwe Draaisma.