title: Innate Talents: Reality Or Myth?
creator: Howe, Michael J. A.
creator: Davidson, Jane W.
creator: Sloboda, John A.
subject: Developmental Psychology
subject: Behavioral & Brain Sciences
subject: Behavioral Analysis
description: Talents that selectively facilitate the acquisition of high levels of skill are said to be present in some children but not others. The evidence for this includes biological correlates of specific abilities, certain rare abilities in autistic savants, and the seemingly spontaneous emergence of exceptional abilities in young children, but there is also contrary evidence indicating an absence of early precursors for high skill levels in young people. An analysis of positive and negative evidence and arguments suggests that differences in early experiences, preferences, opportunities, habits, training and practice are the real determinants of excellence.
date: 1998
type: Journal (Paginated)
type: PeerReviewed
format: text/html
identifier: http://cogprints.org/656/1/innate.htm
identifier:   Howe, Michael J. A. and Davidson, Jane W. and Sloboda, John A.  (1998) Innate Talents: Reality Or Myth?  [Journal (Paginated)]     
relation: http://cogprints.org/656/