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Fehr, Thorsten; Weber, Jochen; Willmes, Klaus; Herrmann, Manfred – Neuropsychologia, 2010
Prodigies are individuals with exceptional mental abilities. How is it possible that some of these people mentally calculate exponentiations with high accuracy and speed? We examined CP, a mental calculation prodigy, and a control group of 11 normal calculators for moderate mental arithmetic tasks. CP has additionally been tested for exceptionally…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Mental Computation, Short Term Memory, Brain Hemisphere Functions