Savant Syndrome Links:
Famous Autistic Savants
Wikpedia Savant website

Some animal behavior is similar to Autistic Savants - Extreme memory and specialized cognition (Ch. 7 excerpt)
Animals in Translation by Dr. Temple Grandin

The Savant Syndrome in Autistic Disorder - An Extraordinary Condition
2005 Paper by Dr. Darold Treffert - Wisconsin University

Islands of Genius (pdf.)
Dr. Darold Treffert

Savant-like Skills Exposed in Normal People by Suppressing the Left
Fronto-Temporal Lobe (pdf.)
Journal of Integrative Neuroscience, Vol.2, No.2, 149-158 (2003)

Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
The Autistic Artist, "Special Faculties", and Savant Syndrome
Vol. 161 No.4, April 2007
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