The ways in which sensory information, music in particular, is managem by the mental processing system of differentially gifted students were studied. A total of 138 right-handed adolescents and young adults (aged 14 to 22 years), who were gifted in music, mathematics, or dance, were tested on two tasks of music and one task of speech perception. Focus was on studying the comparative nature of ...

This article gives an insight into the developmental patterns and various problems of gifted children. The treating pediatrician should avoid missing such children when brought for behavioural disorders and learning disabilities.

A t a conference held in January 2005, Lawrence Summers, then president of Harvard University, hypothesized that a major reason for the paucity of women mathematicians among the tenured faculty of elite research universities in the USA might be sex-based differences in “intrinsic aptitude” for mathematics, especially at the very high end of the distribution [36]. This commonly held belief is la...

Gifted children differ from their nongifted counterparts in that they show different ways of thinking, maintain higher levels attention, manifest advanced cognitive skills, and enjoy researching exploring (Clark, 2012). These differences are also reflected attitude to reading comprehension skills. Regarding this, the current study aims examine attitudes skills a group gifted fifth grade student...