A person with gross mental retardation who nonetheless is capable of performing certain remarkable feats in sharply circumscribed intellectual areas, such as calendar calculation or puzzle solving.
An individual with a rare form of mental retardation, extraordinarily talented in one or a few limited areas of intellectual achievement; sometimes called autistic savant.
A child or adult who despite often (but not always) having a mental handicap has an extraordinary ability to perform mental calculations or demonstrate feats of knowledge, in many cases relating to numbers.
person who is mentally retarded in general but who displays remarkable aptitude in some limited field (usually involving memory)
a person who expresses extraordinary mental abilities, often in the fields ofnumerical calculation (not to be confused with mathematics), but also sometimes in art or music
A system or person that is highly skilled in a small task area but impaired in other areas of functioning. The term is taken from psychiatry, where it refers to a person who exhibits brilliance in one very limited domain but is underdeveloped in common sense, knowledge, and competence. Idiot savants have been known, for example, to be capable of multiplying very large numbers in their heads, although they are otherwise mentally disabled.
A person with gross mental retardation who nonetheless is capable of performing remarkable feats in certain intellectual areas, such as calendar calculation, mathematics, puzzle solving and even musical talents.