That’s nothing. Joe Biden had a concussion that turned him into an idiot savant…except without the “savant” part.
And it didn’t take a concussion to make him an idiot, either.
Oliver Sacks’ uneven book Musicophilia recounts several similar cases, including a man who developed a classical piano obsession after being struck by lightning. I tend to think that music is one of the few areas about the brain where Steven Pinker is wrong (Pinker famously considers music in humans an accident of our large brains).
This could solve the education bubble; just enroll in the three stooges school of the performing arts!
That’s nothing. Joe Biden had a concussion that turned him into an idiot savant…except without the “savant” part.
And it didn’t take a concussion to make him an idiot, either.
Oliver Sacks’ uneven book Musicophilia recounts several similar cases, including a man who developed a classical piano obsession after being struck by lightning. I tend to think that music is one of the few areas about the brain where Steven Pinker is wrong (Pinker famously considers music in humans an accident of our large brains).
This could solve the education bubble; just enroll in the three stooges school of the performing arts!