The term ’savant’ may be most often used for people such as Daniel Tammet, who is autistic and can recite more than 22,000 digits of pi from memory.
The savant label seems to be mostly used for cognitive abilities like prodigious memory, such as Tammet’s.
But what about other exceptional sensory processing abilities?
In the 1980’s, Arthur B. Lintgen, M.D. could look at the groove patterns in vinyl records and correctly identify the piece of music.
Continued: Sensory processing sensitivity: smelling books and reading vinyl record grooves .
The savant label seems to be mostly used for cognitive abilities like prodigious memory, such as Tammet’s.
But what about other exceptional sensory processing abilities?
In the 1980’s, Arthur B. Lintgen, M.D. could look at the groove patterns in vinyl records and correctly identify the piece of music.
Continued: Sensory processing sensitivity: smelling books and reading vinyl record grooves .
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