4/20/2023 0 Comments Kid music prodigy![]() ![]() Taylor Caldwell wrote Romance of Atlantis when she was 12 or 13.Robert Clark Young - was reading and writing English and Spanish by age of five, wrote a novel at the age of 13 and submitted it to New York publishers before he was a freshman in high school, sold his first newspaper article at 14.Winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physics Pioneered Condensed matter, and "created" the Russian school of theoretical physics. Winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics Went to Yale at 15 and received his PhD from MIT at 20. Murray Gell-Mann-Taught himself calculus at seven.As Joanna Schaffhausen put it, "Mozart was a child prodigy Beethoven was not. The " Mozart Effect" of hereditary talent provides a base from which prodigious children may express their gifts. Not all children are prodigies, and not all prodigies became so without hard work to develop their talents. While there are no definitive answers in the field of child prodigies, the consensus among most researchers is that it is caused by an interaction of environment (practice) and innate talent. Other areas of the brain showed use by the subject, including a sector of the brain generally related to childlike “finger counting,” probably used in his mind to relate numbers to the visual cortex. Some of the areas that he (and presumably prodigies) uses are brain sectors dealing in visual and spatial memory, as well as visual mental imagery. His brain, compared to six other controls, was studied using the PET scan, revealing separate areas of his brain that he manipulated to solve the complex problems. ![]() One subject never excelled as a child in mathematics, but he taught himself algorithms and tricks for calculatory speed, becoming capable of extremely complex mental math. ![]() The PET scans also answer questions about which specific areas of the brain associate themselves with prodigal number-manipulation. For example, experienced waiters have been found to hold the orders of up to twenty customers in their heads while they serve them, but perform only as well as an average person in number-sequence recognition. This memory, specific to a field of expertise, is capable of holding relevant information for extended periods, usually hours. PET Scans ( ) done to several math prodigies have led to the idea of the LTWM, or long-term working memory. Mathematical prodigies, so-called “ calculators,” achieve blood flow to parts of the brain responsible for mathematical operations six to seven times the typical flow. Michael O'Boyle, an American psychologist working in Australia, however has recently utilized fMRI scanning of blood flow during mental operation in prodigies to display startling results. ![]() Also, in a recent study of Taiwanese physics and chemistry prodigies ( ), three-quarters of the children studied were first or only children in relatively well-off families in which both parents were professionals (though not necessarily in the child's field of expertise).įew studies have examined the neurological activity of prodigies. Pablo Picasso, the world-renowned artist prodigy, had a professional painter as a father. Mozart, one of the most accomplished classical musicians and a recognized musical prodigy, was raised by a musician father whose specialty was teaching. There is much debate about what forms a prodigy, but many are found to come from families where one or more of the parents specialize in the field of the child’s talent. ![]()
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