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A Visually Impaired Savant Artist: Interacting Perceptual and Memory Representations
Article first published online: 13 OCT 2003
DOI: 10.1111/1469-7610.00529
1999 Association for Child Psychology and Psychiatry
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Hermelin, B., Pring, L., Buhler, M., Wolff, S. and Heaton, P. (1999), A Visually Impaired Savant Artist: Interacting Perceptual and Memory Representations. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 40: 1129–1139. doi: 10.1111/1469-7610.00529
Publication History
- Issue published online: 13 OCT 2003
- Article first published online: 13 OCT 2003
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Keywords:
- Autistic disorder;
- art;
- Idiot Savants;
- memory;
- visual handicap
In this single case study, paintings by a visually impaired and cognitively handicapped savant artist are evaluated. He paints his pictures exclusively from memory, either after having looked at a natural scene through binoculars, or after studying landscape photographs in brochures, catalogues, and books. The paintings are compared with the models from which they were derived, and the resulting generative changes are accounted for by an interaction between impaired visual input and memory transformations.