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What can we learn from highly developed special skills?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 1998

Michael Rutter
Michael Rutter
Affiliation:
MRC Child Psychiatry Unit and Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, London, SE5 8AF, United [email protected]
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Abstract

Skills cannot be divided into the innate and the acquired. Also, genetic effects may not come into play until well after early childhood, and evocative gene-environment correlations are to be expected. Special talents are common in autism and warrant more detailed study, but whether they have the same meaning as talents in nonautistic individuals is not known.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , June 1998 , pp. 422 - 423
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© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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