Autism, autistic traits and creativity: a systematic review and meta-analysis
| Autor: | Paola Pennisi, Laura Giallongo, Michela Cannarozzo, Giusy Milintenda |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Psychometrics
Cognitive Neuroscience media_common.quotation_subject Population Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 050105 experimental psychology Developmental psychology Creativity 03 medical and health sciences Fluency 0302 clinical medicine Artificial Intelligence Originality medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Autistic Disorder education media_common education.field_of_study 05 social sciences Flexibility (personality) Cognition General Medicine medicine.disease Systematic review Autism Autistic traits Language Meta-analysis Psychopathology Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Cognitive processing. 22(1) |
| ISSN: | 1612-4790 |
| Popis: | Psychometric, historiometric and psychiatric studies are controversial on a hypothetical link between psychopathology and creativity. In this study, we will try to contribute to this debate by analysing the case of autism. Is there a relationship between autism and creativity? If so, can we find the same relationship in a watered-down form in subjects with autistic traits? In order to answer these questions, we carried out a systematic literature review of the studies on this topic published in the last 10 years. We followed the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines. We also conducted a meta-analysis of data. We found that in the clinical population there are fewer creative performances than in control groups; nonetheless, it is possible to delineate a medium creative profile of subjects with autism. The average creative profile of people with autism shows that they are inhibited in fluency and flexibility, but that they display a high level of detail and a particularly high level of originality in works either generated during tests or created in private time. In particular, the level of detail reached in the latter condition seems to be higher in the autistic population than in the control groups. Better linguistic skills appear to be linked to better creative performances. Linguistic tests, if compared with visual and performative tests, seem to favour the expression of originality in subjects with autism. Although our data on autistic traits are compatible with the hypothesis that a high level of autistic traits is a watered-down replica of the cognitive profile of subjects with autism, we have no sufficient data to support this hypothesis. |
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