SPECIFIC SAVANT

Kim Peek from the United States knew the Bible and 12,000 other books by heart. On the other hand, he could not find the logic of even the simplest of things – he was unable to dress and tie his shoelaces. The explanation was hiding deep inside his brain. He had been born without the corpus callosum, a thick nerve bundle between the left and right cerebral hemispheres. Without it, his logic brain centres were unable to communicate with each other.