It it possible to cultivate a"little savant" inside of our brain?

Question

I was reading a lot about savant syndrome.

What things could an average person cultivate with training or intense meditation? What would it take to do this?

Looking for creating personal examples and thoughts.
Thanx

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Answer 1

I think yes. My guess, and it's not completely uninformed, is that we can develop abilities through repetitive exercise of a particular mental activity. I wish I could recall the name of this researcher, or whether I heard it on NPR or some goofy radio station, but they had a neuroresearcher on who was tauting his program for cultivating some of your automatic cognitive processes, which we do indeed have. He uses his buzzword "clicking" as transitioning back to some of the less evolutionarily developed part of the brain via the amygdala. No, it wasn't NPR now that I think of it.
Anyhow, there is empirical and theoretical support for what he is pimping on the radio. Check out the book "Blink" which carries some mild theory behind it. It discusses how experts in a field, like art appraisers, tennis pros and poker players, develop an unconscious ability to process information. Actually it's probably more preconscious abilities. We can develop these automatic skills through experience.