Monday 29 to Tuesday 30 September 2008
Organised by Professor Uta Frith FRS and Dr Francesca Happé
In partnership with the British Academy
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The audio files of the speakers' presentations are available below as MP3 files.
Session 1 - Extraordinary People
Francesca Happé
What aspects of autism predispose to talent?
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Darold Treffert and Greg Wallace
DVD: The Remarkable Savant Syndrome
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Patricia Howlin
Prevalence and types of talents in the autism spectrum
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Ellen Winner
Creativity and Imagination in children's art
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Session 2 - Brain and Talent
Eleanor Maguire
Neural correlates of exceptional memory
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Allan Snyder
Inducing savant skills
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Manuel Casanova
Cortical modularity and exceptional talent
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Simon Baron-Cohen
The role of systemizing
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Session 3 - Cultural Interpretations
Douwe Draaisma
The iconography of autism
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Michael Fitzgerald
Autistic Creativity
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Ian Hacking
Autistic Autobiography
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Roger Cardinal
Outsider art
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Session 4 - Varieties of Talent
Kate Plaisted Grant
Autism and levels of perceptual processing
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Laurent Mottron
Pattern detection and completion in savant syndrome
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Temple Grandin
Visual thinking in autism
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