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Enhanced perception in savant syndrome: patterns, structure and creativity
Laurent Mottron, Michelle Dawson and Isabelle Soulières Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 2009 364, 1385-1391 doi: 10.1098/rstb.2008.0333
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Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B (2009) 364, 1385–1391 doi:10.1098/rstb.2008.0333
Enhanced perception in savant syndrome: patterns, structure and creativity
` Laurent Mottron1,2,*, Michelle Dawson1 and Isabelle Soulieres1,2,3
´ ´ ˆ ` Clinique specialisee de l’autisme, Hopital Riviere-des-Prairies, 7070 Boulevard Perras, ´ ´ Montreal, Quebec, Canada H1E 1A4 2 ´ ´ ´ ´ Department of Psychiatry, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3T 1J4 3 Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA According to the enhanced perceptual functioning (EPF) model, autistic perception is characterized by: enhanced low-level operations; locally oriented processing as a default setting; greater activation of perceptual areas during a range of visuospatial, language, working memory or reasoning tasks; autonomy towards higher processes; and superior involvement in intelligence. EPF has been useful in accounting for autistic relative peaks of ability in