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    Laurence Kim Peek (November 11, 1951 – December 19, 2009) was an American savant. Known as a "megasavant", he had an exceptional memory, but he also experienced...
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    "stone" to form the integrated concept of a tombstone.[citation needed] Kim Peek was arguably the most well-known savant. He was born on November 11, 1951...
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  • character of Raymond after meeting real-life savant Kim Peek; his characterization was based on both Peek and Bill Sackter, a good friend of Morrow who was...
    49 KB (4,297 words) - 11:59, 10 March 2025
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    Hungarian autistic writer and artist Nadia Chomyn, British autistic artist Kim Peek, American "megasavant" Leslie Lemke, American musician Rex Lewis-Clack...
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  • Look up peek, Peek, or PEEK in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Peek or PEEK may refer to: Peek (data type operation), an operation on data types such...
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  • specialized. In extreme cases, like those of Solomon Shereshevsky and Kim Peek, memory skills can reportedly hinder social skills.[medical citation needed]...
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  • performance. The book describes the prodigious memory and 87-point IQ of Kim Peek, the inspiration for the 1988 movie Rain Man. Foer discusses how Daniel...
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  • statuette on permanent loan to Salt Lake City in memory of Kim Peek, and put forward the money for the Peek Award, which "pays tribute to artists, media makers...
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  • baseball executive Kim Novak (born 1933), American actress Kim O'Brien, American actress Kim Peek (1951–2009), American savant Kim Perell, American entrepreneur...
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  • claims to suffer from hyperthymesia in several of his published works. Kim Peek, the savant who inspired the film Rain Man, could accurately recall the...
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    correlations between corpus callosum malformation and autism spectrum disorders. Kim Peek, a savant and the inspiration behind the movie Rain Man, was found with...
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    geneticist John M. Opitz, James Smith and Lucia Santoro, they posit that Kim Peek, the basis for Dustin Hoffman's character in the film Rain Man, had FG...
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    Retrieved June 22, 2023. Rothman, Michael (June 18, 2014). "Take a Sneak Peek at Kim Kardashian's New Video Game". ABC News. Disney Media Networks. Archived...
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  • 2008 – Dock Ellis, American baseball player and coach (b. 1945) 2009 – Kim Peek, American megasavant (b. 1951) 2010 – Anthony Howard, English journalist...
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  • the most well-known cases of savant memory is Kim Peek, the man on which the movie Rain Man was based. Peek had a reported savant memory for most information...
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  • Sackter. Morrow, having met savant Kim Peek, who had a unique neurological condition, conceived of a character based on Peek, though partly, again, on Sackter...
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  • Unfortunately, many savants who have performed memory feats, such as Kim Peek, have not been rigorously studied; they do claim not to need to use encoding...
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  • or syndromes. It is not possible for the corpus callosum to regenerate. Kim Peek, inspiration for the film Rain Man and renowned for his savant abilities...
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    Choir from 1974 to 1999. LaVern W. Parmley, LDS Church Primary President Kim Peek, inspiration for the character of Raymond Babbitt, played by Dustin Hoffman...
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  • poet 1950 – Jim Peterik, American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1951 – Kim Peek, American megasavant (d. 2009) 1951 – Marc Summers, American television...
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