{"id":3936,"date":"2013-01-11T05:22:07","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T10:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilktone.com\/?p=3936"},"modified":"2023-03-30T10:37:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T14:37:43","slug":"man-suffers-head-injury-and-becomes-musical-prodigy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/?p=3936","title":{"rendered":"Man Suffers Head Injury and Becomes Musical Prodigy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Derek Amato had played a little guitar when he was young, but never really was serious about music. However, after suffering a head injury Amato had an interesting experience when visiting a musician friend at home. He <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/lifeandstyle\/2012\/oct\/12\/experience-head-injury-musical-prodigy?CMP=NECNETTXT766#zoomed-picture\">writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We were just sitting around, talking, when I felt an intense, utterly compelling need to touch his piano. I just moved over and started playing \u2013 there was no transition, it was all at once, like I&#8217;d been doing it all my life.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As it turns out, this condition is called acquired savant syndrome and there are <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.philly.com\/2012-08-20\/news\/33273378_1_brain-injury-owens-answers-car-crash\/2\">other cases<\/a> where after a head injury an individual with no particular interest or talent suddenly displays amazing artistic abilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As you might expect for an adult to suddenly display prodigy-like talents, Amato notes that his technique is somewhat unusual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve played alongside a classically trained concert pianist, who was fascinated by my technique \u2013 in some respects, I play like someone who has just started learning, in others my skills outstripped his.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read more about Amato&#8217;s story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/lifeandstyle\/2012\/oct\/12\/experience-head-injury-musical-prodigy?CMP=NECNETTXT766#zoomed-picture\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Derek Amato had played a little guitar when he was young, but never really was serious about music. However, after suffering a head injury Amato had an interesting experience when visiting a musician friend at home. He writes: We were just sitting around, talking, when I felt an intense, utterly compelling need to touch his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/?p=3936\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Man Suffers Head Injury and Becomes Musical Prodigy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15350306,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1371,1386],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-music","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peFHCc-11u","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15350306"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8277,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3936\/revisions\/8277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}