Sometimes, behaviors endowed with high intellectual brilliance in a given area, such as mathematics, space or music, do not go hand in hand with that other equally important field : Emotional Intelligence.
Savant syndrome or Savantism , also known as the genius syndrome, has the peculiarity that we see people who stand out in a specialty almost astonishingly.There are those who just have to walk for an hour in a city, to be able to take that scenario to a plane reflecting to the smallest detail.
Others, for their part, are capable to make amazing mathematical calculations so precise where there is hardly any error.Now, most of them are patients with an autism spectrum disorder, or other developmental problem that often does not allow them to do a life like other people. They are very special, their reali Dad, it's different...
Today in Science Daily Online, we invite you to learn more about Savant syndrome.
Savantism: geniuses no emotional intelligence
It's very possible that you remember Raymond, the character that Dustin Hoffman represented in the cinema so brilliantly in «Rain Man». Here, they were really inspired by a man named Kim Peek, a person who came into the world with a brain problem: a macrocephaly.
This organic problem already developed during its development, caused serious social and personal problems, However, despite being within the autistic spectrum , Kim stood out for several really exceptional areas:
- He could memorize entire books in one reading.of 12,000 throughout his life.
- Despite not being able to walk until past 4 years, it was a wonder of mathematics. His mind was like a calculator.
- He was not autonomous, he could not take care of himself but his brain was like a real computer full of accurate and really broad data.
Most people diagnosed with Savant syndrome enter the autistic spectrum less profound, or they are Asperger. They are not good at managing emotions, controlling anger or frustration, or even perceiving other people's feelings.They usually act by imitating what others do, being able, despite these organic problems or of development, lead a normal life for the most part.
Now, despite being brilliant in some area: mathematics, musical sense, visual memory or drawing, your intellect quotient This is not particularly high, however, you already know without a doubt the ambiguity of this index, and the problems that it usually causes so often.Today there are very interesting books and studies on Savant syndrome as written by Darold Treffert « Extraordinary people: understanding savant syndrome».
This book explains, for example, an idea maintained by many specialists: this syndrome would actually be led by a problem in the left hemisphere of the brain.Many patients diagnosed with this syndrome have some dysfunction in this brain area, and even people who have suffered a traumatic accident on this side of the brain, suddenly show some exceptional virtue.
For many neurologists a lesion in the left hemisphere sometimes uncovers amazing processes.What happens is that generally, people when we read, see or learn something we usually "edit", that is, we are left with very limited information that we interpret, forgetting or discarding the rest automatically.
The brain of a Savant does not edit .If you read something remember everything as if it were "a photocopy", do not add accessory information.When you observe a landscape, act keeping each pixel as if it were a photograph...Now, in many cases, this amazing intellectual faculty implies that we lose the ability to understand certain emotions, to relate better, to be empathic...
As you can see, the wonders hidden in the brain never cease to amaze us.
Comments
Post a Comment