Can remember 9000 books.
It is reported that 53-year-old Pique is an autistic person, but he is also known as a "super genius" because he has extraordinary talents in history, literature, geography, sports, music and other different fields. According to Richard Polly, director of the California Medical Center, who scanned his brain, Pique's brain not only has unique abilities, but all the evidence shows that his brain seems to be getting smarter as time goes by.
It is reported that Pique often comes to the Salt Lake City Public Library to read books in the afternoon. Every time he reads a book, he can hardly forget it. Sometimes he even looks through the phone book bored. He can remember the names and phone numbers in a directory word for word. According to Pique's father Fran, Pique can remember every book his parents read to him when he is only 12 to 20 months old. So far, Pique's brain has memorized at least 9000 books.
Pique, on the other hand, is quite "retarded", for example, he can't find a drawer and doesn't wear clothes.
The brain has a "data storage area"
Pique's story inspired Hollywood directors, and the Oscar-winning film 1988 was based on him. This movie also made Pique famous. After the film was broadcast, Pique's life changed dramatically. Before that, he seldom interacted with people, even never looked at other people's faces, but after the film was broadcast, Pique began to change himself gradually, trying to interact with people and give speeches in public places.
However, Pique's "brain miracle" has been puzzling many experts in the United States. It is reported that when Pique was born, the doctor found a blister on his right skull. Later tests showed that Pique's brain did not separate the left and right hemispheres like ordinary people, but formed a separate and huge "data storage area".
According to Fran, Pique's father, this physiological condition of Pique's brain is probably the reason why Pique can remember more than 9,000 books, but it also leads to his sports skills falling far behind his peers.
High-tech interpretation of the mystery of autism genius
According to experts from NASA's research team, scientists gave Pique a series of tests, including magnetic resonance tomography. The test results will create a series of accurate three-dimensional images of Pique's brain.
The researchers intend to compare the new three-dimensional image with the magnetic resonance imaging image taken by Dr. Dan Christensen, a neuroscientist at the University of Utah in the United States, in 1988 to understand what happened to Pique's brain during 16 years and why it seems to make him smarter and smarter.
Pique's father Fran told reporters: "The purpose of this test is to find out what happens in Kim's brain when he expresses and thinks about problems."
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Daniel tamante
There are about 50 idiot geniuses in the world.
Daniel Tamante, a 27-year-old British man, is a genius. He has amazing "counting" ability, and can recite pi to 22,565,438+04 decimal places. He is not only proficient in 10 language, but also founded a memory skills company, which specializes in teaching people how to learn math and language faster and more effectively.
However, severe autism made him unable to communicate with people normally since he was a child and could not understand the feelings of ordinary people. There are only numbers in his world, and every number from 1 to 1 million has a unique color, texture and emotional resonance.
For example, 4 stands for shyness and quietness, and 6 stands for darkness and emptiness. ...
Not long ago, this newspaper interviewed this idiot genius exclusively. Recently, Daniel Tamante published his autobiography Born on a Blue Day.
According to statistics, about 50 idiot geniuses like Daniel have been diagnosed in the world.
I may be curious about how the seemingly contradictory aspects of "mental retardation" and "amazing talent" can appear in one person at the same time.
I believe many people have seen the movie Rain Man, and the hero and Daniel have many similarities. Rain Man is a true story adapted into a movie. The real Rain Man king peake and his father Fran Pique currently live in Salt Lake City, Utah. Kim is a genius with super mechanical memory. Kim's total IQ is about 87 (3), however, according to the estimation of psychologists and educators, his memory IQ is about 220. Fortunately, he has a memory IQ as high as 220, so he can raise his total IQ to 87 (3). If his memory IQ is only 87 (3), then his total IQ may be too low to be measured by intelligence test, and he will be a serious or extremely serious person.
People like Rain Man and Daniel, who have low intelligence but amazing talent in some way, are called "idiot scholars" or "idiot geniuses", that is, "autistic scholars".
What makes people curious is, how can these seemingly contradictory aspects of "mental retardation" and "amazing talent" appear in one person at the same time?
The interpersonal intelligence of autistic patients is impaired, but it does not affect the exertion of other intelligence.
American media reported that Leslie Lemcke was an American intellectual with special musical talent and mental retardation, and had never received formal music training. When she was a teenager, she first heard Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No.1, and played it smoothly on the piano without hesitation. She can play any music she has ever heard on the piano, no matter how long or complicated it is. But she can't take a knife and fork, a spoon, or eat with chopsticks, and she lacks self-care ability in daily life. When you talk to her, she seldom repeats what you say, even it is difficult to parrot.
Dr. Liu Zhengkui from the Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences said that human cognition includes three aspects: cognition of the objective world; Cognition of physiology (including birth and death); Psychological and emotional cognition. Autism patients (commonly known as autism) have obstacles in psychological and emotional cognition and lack the ability to identify other people's emotions.
However, Gardner, a professor at Harvard University, put forward the theory of multiple intelligences, which divides human intelligence into linguistic intelligence, logical-mathematical intelligence, spatial intelligence, sports intelligence, musical intelligence, interpersonal intelligence, self-knowledge intelligence and natural intelligence. These kinds of intelligence are independent of each other. For example, people with poor musical intelligence may have outstanding language intelligence. Chen Jingrun's mathematical talent is second to none in China, but he is quite inexperienced in interpersonal relationship. It can be seen that the two do not affect each other. Therefore, although the interpersonal intelligence of autistic patients is damaged, it does not affect the display of other intelligence.
Autistic people lack other stimuli and often do the same thing over and over again.
It is also reported that Yoshihiko Yamamoto, a Japanese scholar with special artistic talent and mental retardation, found brain edema at the age of six months and became a person with severe mental retardation. He couldn't finish defecation training until he was six years old, and severe hearing loss led to language disorder. 12 years old, mental age is only about three years old, IQ is about 23. When Yamamoto was interviewed in junior high school, he couldn't answer "What's your name?" "Which school did you graduate from?" For example, simple questions can't write Japanese letters. Psychologists report that Yamamoto has no potential for education, and he seems to like the quiet world. Because he doesn't like language, Kawasaki encourages him to describe his life with pictures every day and keep a diary with pictures. So Yamamoto began to concentrate on painting every day, and he could sit in his seat for hours like a Buddha.
Later, his paintings were sought after by many people, and he was praised as another Van Gogh (Dutch impressionist painter) in Japan. His paintings have been exhibited in America, Japan and other places. People with autism often do the same thing over and over again. Because they can't perceive other people's feelings and thoughts, they are more attached to their own world. The behavioral characteristics of autistic people are stereotyped repetition. Repetition is an important way of behavior training. When the repetition reaches a certain number, human behavior forms a module, which can be automatically processed unconsciously without occupying brain resources. Although the average intelligence level of ordinary people is relatively higher, they need to receive and process a lot of information every day. Human energy is like water in a fresh-keeping cup. Ordinary people have to sprinkle water in different fields to meet their needs of life and development, so each serving of water may have only a few drops. Autistic people may only have half a glass of water, but they will pour all this half a glass of water in the same place, and the effect will be very obvious.
Genius has a probability in any group.
In addition, genius has probability in any group. Whether it is a normal group or a group with some defects, it is possible to give birth to a genius. There are also people with superior abilities in the general population. A little girl who is only 2 1 month old in Dinghai County, Zhejiang Province has been able to recognize 1500 Chinese characters. When she was 9 months old, she showed an extraordinary memory. The quilt at home was hanging on the balcony, and her parents forgot to collect it. She pointed out the window and screamed. When her father bought a children's intelligence card, she only read it once and remembered the contents of more than 20 cards.
-Text/Intern reporter of this newspaper Sun Xiaoyu
Extended reading
Why are most people with autism sensitive to numbers?
American research reports that a pair of famous 24-year-old identical twins, George and Charles, have IQs of about 60 and 70 respectively, and both of them are mentally retarded. Because their families couldn't stand their strange behavior, when they were 9 years old, they were sent to Richeworth Village, a state mental hospital in Hills, new york.
When the doctors in the hospital studied them, they asked, "In 2020, the first day of which month is Friday?"
The two brothers thought for a few seconds and then replied, "March, February and November."
The doctor asked again, "In which year is April 2 1 day a Sunday?"
Answer: "1957, 1963, 1946." If not in chronological order, the answer will be quick and accurate.
Most of the "scholar autism" patients like Daniel have outstanding talent in digital memory. For example, King Pique, a true rain man mentioned earlier, has a wide range of special abilities, but most of them are related to memory. For all American cities with a population of over 800, Kim can tell you which highway passes, which railway or river passes through the city or suburb, and the postal code of the city. Which channel should I watch if I want to watch regional TV?
There is also an American named Kenneth. Psychologists point out that Kenneth can be 38 years old, and his mental age is 1 1. He can't read, but he can tell you the names, rooms and locations of the top 2,000 hotels in every town with more than 5,000 people in the United States, and can count 3,000 mountains and rivers and about 2,000 major hotels.
Dr Liu Zhengkui believes that people with autism are instinctively sensitive to quantification. Quantification is the most basic relationship for people to construct their understanding of the whole world. Newborns can tell the difference between 1 and 3, and even animals can have a basic understanding of quantity. Other high-level abilities such as logical thinking and judgment need to be built the day after tomorrow. Autistic people have the same innate abilities as ordinary people, but they only lack some acquired abilities because of their lack of ability to receive information.
Noun interpretation
Autism scholar: An individual suffers from serious mental illness or personality abnormality, or emotional disorder (such as autism), but has amazing mental operation ability completely opposite to his disorder. Some people with autism even have cognitive abilities beyond ordinary people, and they have strong digital memory, art, music and other special abilities.
The treatment and training of "autism" patients must have a support, usually to interpret human emotions with what they are interested in. For example, Daniel can get a preliminary understanding of other people's emotions through numbers, which helps to relieve symptoms.