Child prodigies are unusual for their early and exceptional adoption of what are traditionally thought of as adult abilities.

RACT This monograph reports on a study of six child prodigies whose talents are manifested in writing, music, and mathematics. The boys, aged 3.5-9 year. , were observed in natural …

A more typical child prodigy was Norbert Wiener, who eventually become one of the great mathematicians of the twentieth century. Wiener founded the science of cybernetics, which …

Even if many musicians agree that the outstandingly gifted child is immediately recognizable, unmistakable, and very rare (Shuter-Dyson, 1985), there is considerable disagreement …

mmons Attribution 3.0 License. ISSN 2573-2773 Abstract We focus here on child prodigies to make the case that all high-level achievement—whether we call this gifted.

One of the first widely published accounts of a child prodigy was that of Christian Heinrich Heineken, a profoundly . ifted child born in Lubeck, Germany, in 1721. By the age of 10 …

Feldman and Goldsmith (1991) sought an evolutionary explanation of the child prodigy phenomenon. Following in this vein, a theory involving the evolution and development