Concussion turn an ordinary man into a musical genius Bashny.Net

Before the injury did not own American musical instrumentami

Of course, in a nice little concussion, but more often it goes unnoticed for a person or provokes only a small memory impairment. For 41-year-old Derek Amato concussion was fatal, as is often said, his life divided into "before" and "after." The man could not assume that the jump into the pool headfirst turn it into a professional musician.

Seven years ago, ordinary October afternoon, Derek and his friends played football, and he dove into the pool to control the ball. The depth in the place was small, and he had hit his head, and then he started having frequent headaches, memory loss appeared to worsen hearing.

But this is not important: after hitting the American began to "see" music, although only slightly before he played guitar, did not know musical notation, and had no idea how to write music. Now the man still does not know the music, but 24 hours a day in his head music is born: According to Derek, it occurs in the form of a certain sequence of black and white blocks, moving from left to right.



Male sure that this is nothing like a gift from above: before finding the talent he was unemployed loser who does not know what to do with their lives, and now Amato - demanded a musician, who recorded two albums.

The incident with Derek - a rare example of a so-called savant syndrome (savantism), a phenomenon in which a person with a disability demonstrate outstanding ability, for example, multiplying six-digit numbers, memorizing large amounts of data, or other branches of knowledge and skills.





Sometimes the syndrome develops as a result of traumatic brain injury (which is what happened with the Amato): science knows several similar cases, but Derek - the only one after the tremors manifested musical genius. The neurologist at the Mayo Clinic, who has studied the case of Derek believes that the cause can be developed after hitting synesthesia - the union of two sensory processes into one, so that people can "see" smell, "hear" colors or, for example, feel the "taste" of sounds.

via factroom.ru