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The idiot savant: flawed genius or clever Hans?1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

B. Hermelin  and
N. O'Connor
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Psychological Medicine , Volume 13 , Issue 3 , August 1983 , pp. 479 - 481
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