Table 6: Relationships between cognitive characteristics of the profoundly gifted and intellectual overexcitability (OE).

Cognitive characteristics of highly-profoundly gifted

Intellectual overexcitability in a combined with other forms of OE

·         An early ability and love of reading

·         Intellectual OE combined with Emotional OE

·         A compulsion to learn

·         The desire for complexity

·         Intellectual OE on levels III and IV

·         Intellectual OE on level IV

·         Perspective insights

·         The ability to skip steps

·         Intellectual OE on levels III and IV

·         Divergent thinking capabilities

·         Intellectual OE on level IV

·         The ability to see patterns and

·         The ability to comprehend the abstract

·         Intellectual OE on level IV