Sentences with phrase «human autistic savants»
The authors agree that some animals have extraordinary, savant - like cognitive powers — Clark's woodpecker can locate over 1000 pine nut stashes, for example — but they say these brilliant birds are simply well adapted, and don't suffer other cognitive impairments typical in human autistic savants.
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Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson; Scribner, $ 25 Animals may be autistic savants, and autism itself «a kind of way station on the road between animals and humans,» writes animal scientist Temple Grandin.