Are Animals Autistic Savants
Open Access
- 19 February 2008
- journal article
- essay
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Biology
- Vol. 6 (2) , e42
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0060042
Abstract
Do animals have privileged access to lower level sensory information before it is packaged into concepts, as it has been argued for autistic savants?Keywords
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