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New Research Suggests Autistic Savants May Have Enhanced Telepathic Abilities
The amazing abilities of autistic savants – prodigious feats of memory and calculation, as well as musical and artistic talents, despite the presence of mental disabilities (see the bottom of this post for examples) – remains one of the most fascinating topics in brain science. But these abilities may only be the tip of the iceberg, with new research suggesting that autistic savants may also have an enhanced capacity for extrasensory perception.
In 2013 neuropsychiatrist Dr. Diane Hennacy Powell was sent three homemade videos of a severely autistic nine-year-old girl which claimed to show her demonstrating a telepathic ability. Intrigued, Powell organised to conduct research sessions with two separate therapists who had reported telepathic experiences with the girl.
Though the ideal scientific set-up would be to keep the ‘sender’ and ‘receiver’ isolated from each other, this case had the complication of the sensitive nature of the girl’s condition. As such, Powell kept the therapist in the same room, noting that “even subtle changes to the environment are very distracting and disturbing for a child with severe autism”. Instead, a divider was put between the therapists and the child. Then randomized numbers, sentences, fake words, and visual images were presented to the therapists. The girl was then asked to “read the therapist’s mind.”
Source: http://philosophers-stone.co.uk/wordpress/2014/10/new-research-suggests-autistic-savants-may-have-enhanced-telepathic-abilities/
