Neurobiology: Rain Man's revelations

In the filmRain Man, an autistic savant multiplied huge numbers with lightening speed. Other savants are extraordinarily talented at drawing or remembering things. How do they do this? A new study indicates that they access the ‘preconscious’, low-level stages of mental processing. Not only that, but we all may have the innate ability to perform these feats if we could only tap into this level of processing.