Category Archives: Neuroscience Part 4 – Special series on Music and the Brain Savant syndrome is a rare condition in which people with developmental disorders and impaired cognitive ability have an area of expertise. Most savants are victims of early infant autism which strikes seven children in a hundred thousand. Of these, as many as one in ten...  Part 2 – Special Series on Music and the Brain For twenty years, one of my sons has played or sung notes he sees in color. On road trips, he sees highway signs like rainbows. Last year, he felt some relief as he learned in a psychology course about synesthesia and that he wasn’t weird... |
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