Disentangling the Impact of Artistic Creativity on Creative Thinking, Working Memory, Attention, and Intelligence: Evidence for Domain-Specific Relationships with a New Self-Report Questionnaire

Lunke, Katrin; Meier, Beat

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01089

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“…However, the results may reflect the fact that divergent creativity is not the basis for distinct artistic abilities. In a previous study, we separated four artistic domains and 18 subdomains and correlated these with divergent verbal and figural creativity (Lunke & Meier, ). The results showed a distinctive pattern of correlations for each subdomain.…”

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“…Divergent thinking was assessed with the German adaption of the Abbreviated Torrance Test for Adults (ATTA; Goff & Torrance, ; cf. Lunke & Meier, ). This is a short and valid measurement of divergent thinking (c.f.…”

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“…As a second verbal divergent thinking task, the Sentence Construction subtest of the German Analyse des Schlussfolgernden und Kreativen Denkens (ASK, Schuler & Hell, ; cf. Lunke & Meier, ) was used in order to complement the assessment with a second verbal divergent task. The norms of the ASK allowed us to use comparable standardized values.…”

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“…High creativity has been associated with a broader, more flexible, and widely ramified semantic network and with a higher degree of mental imagery and visuo‐spatial abilities (Kenett, Anaki, & Faust, ; Kozhevnikov, Kozhevnikov, Yu, & Blazhenkova, ; Paivio, ; Shindell, ). High divergent verbal creativity has also been connected to higher performance in working memory (Benedek, Jauk, Sommer, Arendasy, & Neubauer, ; Lunke & Meier, ). In general, synaesthesia provides for a broader semantic network through automatically spreading activations and a richer world of experiences (cf.…”

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Creativity and involvement in art in different types of synaesthesia

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Meier

2018

British J of Psychology

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The aim of the present study was to test the relationship between different types of synaesthesia and their involvement in art, creative, and visual abilities. We tested 20 grapheme‐colour, 18 sound‐colour, 19 grapheme‐colour‐and‐sound‐colour, 20 sequence‐space synaesthetes, and the same number of controls matched by age, gender, and education. We assessed the number of artistic professions, involvement in art, and the performance in psychometric tests of divergent and convergent creativity, as well as visual and visuo‐spatial abilities. Results show a higher prevalence of artists among synaesthetes, especially sound‐colour synaesthetes. Sound‐colour synaesthetes also showed a higher involvement in artistic activities overall while sequence‐space synaesthetes showed higher involvement in visual art. Only grapheme‐colour‐and‐sound‐colour synaesthetes showed significantly higher divergent creativity compared to matched controls. Additionally, overall, synaesthetes scored higher in visuo‐spatial abilities (i.e., mental rotation). For synaesthetes and controls, visuo‐spatial abilities correlated with divergent creativity. We discuss that synaesthetes’ higher involvement in art is not necessarily reflected in their basic creative abilities.

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Creativity and involvement in art in different types of synaesthesia

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2018

British J of Psychology

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“…Theories of divergent versus convergent thinking suggest that creativity does not necessarily require an above average academic record. 11 …”

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A patient in her 20s was referred to us for psychological assessment due to her depression and suicide attempts. She mentioned being anorgasmic except when diapered and emphasized her erotic preference for diapers. Her childhood included maternal deprivation in an impecunious family headed by an irritable physically disabled father on social assistance. Given the maternal deprivation in childhood, her erotic fixation on diapers parallels the emotional attachment to diapers observed by Harlow in mother deprived infant monkeys. Etiological hypotheses should also include the paradigm of avoidance learning from theories of behavior therapy. Our patient does not wish to change her sexual preference: in such cases, fetishism is not considered as an illness by DSM5. However, she needs to be treated for pathological levels of depression with suicidal ideation and low self-esteem.

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Synesthetes are More Involved in Art — Evidence From the Artistic Creativity Domains Compendium (ACDC)

Lunke

Meier

2022

Journal of Creative Behavior

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Creativity is a multidimensional, multistage, and time-dependent process, which can be expressed in various artistic domains and sub-domains (e.g., visual arts, literature, music, and performing arts). The present study investigated the involvement of synesthetes in art, and whether the type of synesthesia determines the preferred artistic domain. We tested 709 participants with either grapheme-color, sound-color, or sequencespace synesthesia (monotypical synesthesia) or a combination thereof (multiple synesthesia) and nonsynesthete controls with the Artistic Creativity Domains Compendium (ACDC). The ACDC measures the involvement in art on the three levels "interest," "ability," and "performance" for the four domains "visual arts," "literature," "music," and "performing arts." Overall, the results showed that synesthetes have an affinity for all four artistic domains compared with non-synesthete controls. Moreover, the presence of multiple types of synesthesia affected the specific preference. Besides, compared with monotoypical synesthetes, the group of grapheme-color-sound-color-and-sequence-space synesthetes showed higher involvement in all artistic domains, most pronounced in visual arts. Overall, the study demonstrates that synesthesia is associated with higher interest, ability, and performance in art.

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Disentangling the Impact of Artistic Creativity on Creative Thinking, Working Memory, Attention, and Intelligence: Evidence for Domain-Specific Relationships with a New Self-Report Questionnaire

Cited by 25 publications

References 33 publications

Creativity and involvement in art in different types of synaesthesia

Creativity and involvement in art in different types of synaesthesia

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Synesthetes are More Involved in Art — Evidence From the Artistic Creativity Domains Compendium (ACDC)

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