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A common feature of all savants, regardless of the particular skill area in which they excel, is clearly an extremely deep and detailed memory, though only for a very narrow range of information.

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Frequently seen splinter skills include a preoccupation with, and huge memory for, music and sports trivia, license plate numbers, calendars, maps, and historical facts as well as more unusual niche categories such as the many different models of vacuum tubes, and the appliances they were used in.

Savants can show exceptional performance in a wide range of abilities, the most common of which are called splinter skills. Others can perform multiple-digit multiplication in their heads, while lacking the ability to read. Some autistic savants, for example, cannot dress themselves or perform basic self-care, yet they can instantly tell the correct the day of the week on which any date in history fell. A savant is a person in whom severe mental handicap, usually mental retardation or autism, coexists with exceptional talent in a discrete skill or ability.

The people known today as savants were previously known by the somewhat less-sensitive term idiot savants, reﬂecting the terminology that was once used with reference to mental retardation.