Creative Thinking in Tourette's Syndrome: An Uncharted Topic

Colautti, Laura; Magenes, Sara; Rago, Sabrina; Dina, Carlotta Zanaboni; Cancer, Alice; Antonietti, Alessandro

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.649814

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“…Furthermore, differences in moral reasoning may help neurodivergent researchers to identify ethical or epistemological issues which would otherwise remain uncovered. This difference in moral reasoning reflects a larger heterogeneity of information processing across the neurodiversity spectrum, including differences in creative or divergent thinking (Best et al, 2015;Colautti et al, 2021;Magenes et al, 2021;Majeed et al, 2021;Sedgwick et al, 2019), vocabulary and reading experience (e.g., Elsherif et al, 2021), pattern recognition (Baron-Cohen et al, 2009;Schneps et al, 2011), and the influence of cognitive biases (Rozenkrantz et al, 2021). In particular, cognitive biases such as confirmation bias have been identified as a key issue in the interpretation of scientific results.…”

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Bridging Neurodiversity and Open Scholarship: How Shared Values Can Guide Best Practices for Research Integrity, Social Justice, and Principled Education

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Middleton²,

Phan³

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Not all people conform to what is socially construed as the norm and divergences should be expected. Neurodiversity is fundamental to the understanding of human behaviour and cognition. However, neurodivergent individuals are often stigmatised, devalued, and objectified. This position statement presents the perspectives of neurodivergent authors, the majority of whom have personal lived experiences of neurodivergence(s), and discusses how research and academia can and should be improved in terms of research integrity, inclusivity and diversity. The authors describe future directions that relate to lived experience and systematic barriers, disclosure, directions on prevalence, stigma, intersection of neurodiversity and open scholarship, and provide recommendations that can lead to personal and systematic changes to improve acceptance of neurodivergent individuals’ lived experiences within academia.

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Bridging Neurodiversity and Open Scholarship: How Shared Values Can Guide Best Practices for Research Integrity, Social Justice, and Principled Education

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Middleton²,

Phan³

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“…Patients with focal damage to the frontal cortex, a brain area that is typically involved in executive functions (Duncan, 2001 ), were shown to outperform healthy control in an insight problem-solving task (i.e., the matchstick arithmetic task, Knoblich et al, 1999 ) (Reverberi et al, 2005 ). Furthermore, high levels of creativity have been reported in Tourette’s patients, which were explained as the result of altered connectivity patterns between the frontal and prefrontal cortex (Colautti et al, 2021 ).…”

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Executive functioning and divergent thinking predict creative problem-solving in young adults and elderlies

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Iannello

Salvi

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The role of executive functioning in creative thinking is under debate. Some authors suggested that increased inhibitory control, a component of executive functioning, is detrimental to creative solutions, whereas others argued that executive functions are central to creative problem-solving, thus questioning Guilford’s classical distinction between divergent and convergent thinking. Executive functions decline with age. In this study, we investigated the contributions of executive functioning and its age-related decline and divergent thinking to creative problem-solving. To this aim, we divided our sample of sixty healthy adults into two age groups of young adults (20–26 years) and elderly (60–70 years) and we assessed their creative problem-solving abilities (using the compound remote associate problems) as well as other potential cognitive predictors of creative problem-solving (i.e., impulsivity, divergent thinking, verbal working memory, and decision-making style). A linear regression model revealed that the ability to solve problems creatively is negatively predicted by older age and impulsivity, while positively predicted by divergent thinking and verbal working memory. These findings reveal a combined contribution of executive functions and divergent thinking to creative problem-solving, suggesting that both convergent and divergent processes should be considered in interventions to contrast age-related decline.

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“…Colautti and colleagues studied the creative skills of TS patients in order to know if they could help them better manage their symptoms in their daily lives (Colautti et al 2023). Creative thinking is generally defined as the ability to generate an idea that is both innovative (or original) and useful (or appropriate).…”

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