Savant-like numerosity skills revealed in normal people by magnetic pulses.

@article{citeulike:915506, abstract = {Oliver Sacks observed autistic twins who instantly guessed the exact number of matchsticks that had just fallen on the floor, saying in unison "111". To test the suggestion that normal individuals have the capacity for savant numerosity, we temporarily simulated the savant condition in normal people by inhibiting the left anterior temporal lobe of twelve participants with repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS). This site has been implicated in the savant condition. Ten participants improved their ability to accurately guess the number of discrete items immediately following rTMS and, of these, eight became worse at guessing as the effects of the pulses receded. The probability of as many as eight out of twelve people doing best just after rTMS and not after sham stimulation by chance alone is less than one in one thousand.}, address = {Centre for the Mind, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia. allan@centreforthemind.com}, author = {Snyder, A. and Bahramali, H. and Hawker, T. and Mitchell, D. J. }, citeulike-article-id = {915506}, issn = {0301-0066}, journal = {Perception}, keywords = {anterior-temporal-lobe, enumeration, numbers, rtms, rtms-1hz, savant, subitizing, tms, tms-facilitation}, number = {6}, pages = {837--845}, posted-at = {2006-12-12 05:42:15}, priority = {2}, title = {Savant-like numerosity skills revealed in normal people by magnetic pulses.}, url = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16836048}, volume = {35}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:915506 L3 - citeulike-article-id:915506 TI - Savant-like numerosity skills revealed in normal people by magnetic pulses. JF - Perception VL - 35 IS - 6 SP - 837 EP - 845 AD - Centre for the Mind, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia. allan@centreforthemind.com SN - 0301-0066 N2 - Oliver Sacks observed autistic twins who instantly guessed the exact number of matchsticks that had just fallen on the floor, saying in unison "111". To test the suggestion that normal individuals have the capacity for savant numerosity, we temporarily simulated the savant condition in normal people by inhibiting the left anterior temporal lobe of twelve participants with repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS). This site has been implicated in the savant condition. Ten participants improved their ability to accurately guess the number of discrete items immediately following rTMS and, of these, eight became worse at guessing as the effects of the pulses receded. The probability of as many as eight out of twelve people doing best just after rTMS and not after sham stimulation by chance alone is less than one in one thousand. KW - anterior-temporal-lobe KW - enumeration KW - numbers KW - rtms KW - rtms-1hz KW - savant KW - subitizing KW - tms KW - tms-facilitation AU - Snyder, A AU - Bahramali, H AU - Hawker, T AU - Mitchell, DJ PY - 2006/// UR - http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16836048 ER -