S01E01 Memory Masters
Memory Masters: How Savants Store Information Where does memory come from? What causes us to remember some things and immediately forget some things? What “filter systems” ensure that we store some things and not others?...
Beautiful Minds - Voyage into the Brain
Overview
Beautiful Minds: A Voyage Into The Brain, was a 2006 documentary on super-talented savants. Prof. Gerhard Roth of the University of Bremen in Germany, and Dr. Darold Treffert of the University of Wisconsin Medical School in USA introduced savants from different countries. They were Howard Potter, Orlando Serrell, Kim Peek, Matt Savage, Stephen Wiltshire, Temple Grandin, Alonzo Clemons, Christopher Taylor, and Rüdiger Gamm. It has been broadcast in more than 20 countries including Germany, France, Austria, Spain, Switzerland, Italy, Ireland, Sweden, Japan, Hong Kong, Canada, New Zealand, and USA.
The documentary consisted of three episodes:
Episode 1: Memory Masters
Episode 2: The Einstein Effect
Episode 3: The Big Difference
It was produced in 2006 by colourFIELD tell-a-vision, a German company.
Episodes
S01E02 The Einstein Effect
The Einstein Effect: Savants and Creativity The Dublin brain researcher Prof. Michael Fitzgerald supports the theory that outstanding creativity is very often linked to the malfunctions of autistic people. Einstein, Newton, Mozart and Beethoven, Fitzgerald...
S01E03 The Big Difference
A Little Matter of Gender: Developmental Differences among Savants Prof. Simon Baron-Cohen, considered one of the world's most competent autism experts, is not afraid of making himself unpopular. Baron-Cohen's findings break with the dogma that...
Cast
Benjamin Völz
Narrator
