{"id":51452,"date":"2015-09-05T22:00:10","date_gmt":"2015-09-05T22:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rancher_suffers_brain_injury_becomes_accidental_genius-i_never_knew_such_a\/"},"modified":"2015-09-05T22:00:10","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T22:00:10","slug":"rancher_suffers_brain_injury_becomes_accidental_genius-i_never_knew_such_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51452","title":{"rendered":"Rancher Suffers Brain Injury, Becomes Accidental Genius&#8211;I never knew such a thing was possible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Erceg\u2019s condition is so incredibly rare that it took numerous scientific studies and brain scans to diagnose her with what is called \u201csavant syndrome.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Savant Syndrome is described as vastly enhanced cognitive ability in an area such as art and math. Acquired savant syndrome is when a person isn\u2019t born with the condition, which is the case with Erceg. She also suffers from \u201csynesthesia,\u201d\u009d a mixing of senses, where the person can see a sound, or hear a color as a series of numbers and letters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLeigh <b>is the only woman in the world who has acquired savant syndrome and synesthesia following brain injury<\/b> that I know of,\u201d\u009d said Dr. Berit Brogaard, a neuroscientist at the University of Miami who has been studying her.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/colorado-rancher-suffers-traumatic-brain-injury-accidental-genius\/story?id=31053667\">Read it all<\/a> from ABC&#8217;s Nightline (or even better watch the video) {emphasis mine].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erceg\u2019s condition is so incredibly rare that it took numerous scientific studies and brain scans to diagnose her with what is called \u201csavant syndrome.\u201d\u009d Savant Syndrome is described as vastly enhanced cognitive ability in an area such as art and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51452\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,175,101,104,98,129,95,34,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-anthropology","category-children","category-health-medicine","category-marriage-family","category-psychology","category-science-technology","category-theology","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}