ENGL20000 Chapter Notes - Chapter All Chapters: Cognitive Test, Synesthesia, Autism Spectrum
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I was first introduced to savant syndrome as a junior in high school. My pre-calculus teacher, an eccentric man to say the least, showed my class the documentary brainman in an attempt to break up the monotony of daily lectures. The film touched on the lives of men like. Kim park and daniel tammet, savants who have little to no social skills but unthinkably excel in other areas such as math. Full of brain scans, accurate answers to seemingly impossible questions, and interviews with top doctors in the field, brainman just scratches the surface of what it means to be a savant. In daniel tammet"s born on a blue day, the author allows us to see even further into the life of a savant. He touches on the obstacles he had to overcome in his early years, how his brain really works, and how hard he has to work just to be able to interact in seemingly normal social situations.
