The Einstein effect. Savants and creativity
Description
Mute until the age of nine, Stephen Wiltshire learned to communicate through realistic, richly detailed drawings. Alonzo Clemens sculpts clay animal figures with great precision, even though he can barely form a sentence. Matt Savage faced extraordinary developmental problems as a child but has become a teen prodigy among jazz musicians. What is the relationship between creativity and autistic behavior? Why does slow learning-such as the young Albert Einstein experienced-sometimes conceal genius? This program focuses on these questions and other aspects of autistic brain research, revealing fascinating links between the realms of savants and prodigies.
Runtime
54 min
Series
Subjects
- Mental illness (325)
- Children with social disabilities (42)
- Learning, Psychology of (143)
- Children with disabilities (107)
- Brain (487)
- Cognitive psychology (167)
- Developmental disorders (30)
- Aging (259)
- Psycholinguistics (40)
- Adolescent psychopathology (32)
- Educational psychology (148)
- Intellect (87)
- Special Education (37)
- Child psychopathology (37)
Contributor
Genre
Date of Publication
[2006], c2006
Database
Films on Demand
Direct Link
https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=https://fod.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=102638&xtid=36424
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