Thursday, March 22, 2012

Revealing paper about Tammet available in full text


http://www.danielbor.com/papers/Bor_Neurocase_2008.pdf


Bor, D, Billington, J, Baron-Cohen, S. (2007) Savant memory for digits in a case of synaesthesia and Asperger syndrome is related to hyperactivity in the lateral prefrontal cortex. Neurocase. 2007 Oct;13(5):311-9.

Alternative citation: Neurocase. 2008 13(5-6) p.311-319.
DOI: 10.1080/13554790701844945
http://www.danielbor.com/papers/Bor_Neurocase_2008.pdf
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13554790701844945
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/psych/nncs
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a791809555
[Daniel Tammet is definitely the subject of this study, named “DT” in this paper. The fMRI study failed to find expected activity that would indicate synaesthesia, but did find activity consistent with the use of the memory technique known as “chunking”. Authors tried to explain findings with a claim that Tammet’s synaesthesia is a special type.]

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