Preface
Scott Barry Kaufman, New York University
Part One: Perspectives
1. Where Does Greatness Come From: A Treasure Hunt Without a Map
Samuel D. Mandelman, Teachers College, Columbia University and Elena L. Grigorenko, Teachers College, Columbia University, Yale University, Moscow State University
2. Greatness as a Manifestation of Experience-Producing Drives
Wendy Johnson, University of Edinburgh
3. If Innate Talent Doesn't Exist, Where do the Data Disappear?
Dean Keith Simonton, University of California at Davis
4. Whither Cognitive Talent?: Understanding High Ability, its Development, Relevance and Furtherance
Heiner Rindermann, TU Chemnitz, Stephen J. Ceci and Wendy M. Williams, Cornell University
5. Young and Old, Novice and Expert: How We Evaluate Creative Art Can Reflect Practice or Talent
James C. Kaufman, California State University at San Bernardino, John Baer, Rider University, and Lauren E. Skidmore, California State University at San Bernardino
6. Prodigies, Passion, Persistence, and Pretunement: Musings on the Biological
Bases of Talent
Martha J. Morelock, Vanderbilt University
7. Savant Syndrome: A Compelling Case for Innate Talent
Darold A. Treffert, University of Wisconsin
8. Mindsets and Greatness: How Beliefs About Intelligence Can Create A
Preference for Growth Over Defensiveness
Paul A. O'Keefe, New York University and CUNY Graduate Center
Part Two: Debate
9. Giftedness and Evidence for Reproducibly Superior Performance: An Account
Based on the Expert Performance Framework (REPRINT)
K. Anders Ericsson, Roy W. Roring, and Kiruthiga Nandagopal, Florida State University
10. Yes, Giftedness (aka "Innate " Talent) Does Exist!
Françoys Gagné, Université du Québec à Montréal
11. Gagné is Omitting Troublesome Information so as to Present More Convincing Accusations: His Accusations Along with My Own Exploration of the Evidence for Innate Talent
K. Anders Ericsson, Florida State University
Part Three: Domains
12. Scientific Talent: Nature Shaped by Nurture
Gregory Feist, San José State University
13. The Promise of Mathematical Precocity
Linda E. Brody, Johns Hopkins University
14. Memory Expertise or Experts' Memory?
John Wilding, University of London
15. Practice and Talent in Acting
Helga Noice and Tony Noice, Elmhurst College
16. The Rage to Master: The Decisive Role of Talent in the Visual Arts (UPDATED REPRINT)
Ellen Winner, Boston College and Harvard Project Zero; Jennifer E. Drake, Boston College
17. Music in Our Lives
Jane Davidson and Robert Faulkner, University of Western Australia
18. Creating Champions: The Development of Expertise in Sports
Paul R. Ford, Nicola J. Hodges, and A. Mark Williams, University of British
Columbia
Epilogue: Michael Howe Remembered
Jane Davidson, University of Western Australia; John Sloboda, Keele University; and Stephen Ceci, Cornell University
