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Nature 399, 211-212 (20 May 1999) | doi:10.1038/20329
Neurobiology: Rain Man's revelations
Niels Birbaumer1
In the film Rain Man, an autistic savant who can multiply enormous numbers with lightning speed earns social attention and wins his brother a large sum of money in a Las Vegas casino by remembering all the cards in the game. Other retarded savants, such as the three-and-a-half-year-old Nadia described by Selfe1, draw natural objects such as the horse in Fig. 1
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