Savants

Savants are people who are born with lack of abilities such as speaking, walking or even sight, however, this group of people have a great forte in one specific area, being music, art, or memory, among others.

There are three different groups of savants the normal savants, the gifted savants, who dominate extremely well a skill that has no practical purpose and lastly the prodigious savants who are the best in a certain area. What I believe is particularly interesting is the fact that there are only about one hundred savants around the world. This limitates scientist’s study of their brain, which is kind of the down side.

There is a case of a savatn named George, he is a gifted savant. He can remember any day of the week of any month and year…fascinating isn’t it? However he is limited in doing other things because he was born with autism.

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