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Presents descriptive accounts of savant talents and discusses intelligence, implicit learning, and how knowledge is organized, using cognitive theories to explain rare performance. Concludes that a cognitive style such as weak coherence may predispose individuals to develop their talents. Notes limited research on whether a similar obsessive preoccupation exists in other exceptional domains.","Savant Talent  \nLinda Pring 1  \n1 Address for Correspondence: Professor Linda Pring; Psychology Department, Goldsmiths College, University of London, SE14 [6NW. email](6NW. email) [l.pring@gold.ac.uk](l.pring@gold.ac.uk)  \nAcknowledgements: I would like to thank Prof. Beate Hermelin for allowing me to join her research team in 1979 and later for our very enjoyable 15-year research partnership and Dr. Nicola Ryder and Dr. Lisa Heavey for allowing me to use some of their material from their PhD theses.  \nAbstract  \nThe notion of talent is an elusive concept but there appears to be sound evidence that both savants and experts share important qualities Brief descriptive accounts of the talents displayed by savants are presented, along with a discussion of intelligence, implicit learning and the organization of knowledge along with cognitive theories helpful in understanding exceptional abilities in people with autism. It is concluded that a certain cognitive style i.e., weak coherence, may predispose individuals to develop their talents. Although it would be interesting to speculate that some great artists and mathematicians show a similar degree of obsessive preoccupation and a cognitive style reminiscent of autistic spectrum disorder, presumably as a strategic mechanism, there is, as yet, little research on the subject.  \nIslands of talent  \nThe term idiot savant first coined by Down (1) referred to individuals with mental retardation who demonstrated striking abilities or skills against a background of low cognitive functioning. Today such individuals are called savants and the term has been extended to refer to individuals with IQ levels that are potentially in the normal range but with developmental disorders, particularly autism. Treffert (2) distinguished between a talented savant who must possess a level of ability that is remarkable in comparison with their general level of functioning and a prodigious talent, where the displayed ability is exceptional in comparison with the whole population. Howe, Davidson & Sloboda (3) have suggested that the concept of ‘talent’is a myth with high performance arising out of extended practice rather than inherent abilities, though, Rutter (4) amongst others, argues that the very existence of savant ability is, in itself, evidence for innate talent. Before returning to the role of practice and its relationship to memory it may be useful to consider some of the talents that have been the subject of savant research and to describe general features of individuals who show savant talent.  \nSavant talents  \nSavant talent has traditionally involved exceptional memory and sometimes for rather unusual material (e.g. bus routes or telephone directories) . The descriptions below highlight more traditional ‘talented performance’ and serve to give a sketch of the relevant features.  \nMusic  \nHighly organised knowledge structures and complex computations are likely to underpin the skills involved in musical talent and also mathematical and calendrical calculation. For example musical savants have at times been considered comparable to professional musicians and have the ability to transpose music across keys, render imitations of specific musical styles, distinguish constituent tones from chords and have an exceptional memory for music (5) . All musical savants described in the literature display absolute pitch which is the ability to recognise, label and remember pitch information without reference to an external standard and is very likely to be critical for the development of savant ability. Possession of absolute pitch may be quite common amongst savants without musical talent, and certainly it has been reported in an artistic savant and calendar calculator (6,7) .  \nCalendar and numerical calculation  \nCalendar calculation involves the generation of the appropriate day of the week of a given date, in a matter of only a few seconds. Their calculation spans vary from as little as five years to 40,0","cbCaijXAPAXliUkf","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijXAPAXliUkf","pdf",60872,4,1,14,"English","en",105,"# Abstract\n# Islands of talent\n## Savant talents\n### Music\n### Calendar and numerical calculation\n### Language-related","[{\"question\":\"What does the document say about the definition of savant talent?\",\"answer\":\"It distinguishes savants from “idiot savants” and discusses differences between talented savants and prodigious talent. 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