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| Title |
Veridical mapping in savant abilities, absolute pitch, and synesthesia: an autism case study
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, January 2014
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00106 |
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| Authors |
Lucie Bouvet, Sophie Donnadieu, Sylviane Valdois, Chantal Caron, Michelle Dawson, Laurent Mottron |
| Abstract |
An enhanced role and autonomy of perception are prominent in autism. Furthermore, savant abilities, absolute pitch, and synesthesia are all more commonly found in autistic individuals than in the typical population. The mechanism of veridical mapping has been proposed to account for how enhanced perception in autism leads to the high prevalence of these three phenomena and their structural similarity. Veridical mapping entails functional rededication of perceptual brain regions to higher order cognitive operations, allowing the enhanced detection and memorization of isomorphisms between perceptual and non-perceptual structures across multiple scales. In this paper, we present FC, an autistic individual who possesses several savant abilities in addition to both absolute pitch and synesthesia-like associations. The co-occurrence in FC of abilities, some of them rare, which share the same structure, as well as FC's own accounts of their development, together suggest the importance of veridical mapping in the atypical range and nature of abilities displayed by autistic people. |
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The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 17 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 18% |
| Canada | 3 | 18% |
| Switzerland | 2 | 12% |
| Mexico | 1 | 6% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 6% |
| France | 1 | 6% |
| Unknown | 6 | 35% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 15 | 88% |
| Scientists | 2 | 12% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 124 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | 2% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 121 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 21 | 17% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 19 | 15% |
| Researcher | 18 | 15% |
| Student > Master | 15 | 12% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 11 | 9% |
| Other | 24 | 19% |
| Unknown | 16 | 13% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 49 | 40% |
| Neuroscience | 14 | 11% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 10 | 8% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 7 | 6% |
| Computer Science | 7 | 6% |
| Other | 16 | 13% |
| Unknown | 21 | 17% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 44. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 June 2021.
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