Sentences with phrase «like autistic savants»
Grandin says that animals also think like autistic savants, a theory she popularized in her book Animals in Translation.
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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.
In the thriller The Accountant, Ben Affleck stretches to play Christian Wolff, a math savant who can uncook books like nobody's business — and has coped being on the autistic spectrum with his own certain set of skills (Read our review).