Creative Thinking in Adolescents with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) |
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| Authors: | Anna Abraham Sabine Windmann Rainer Siefen Irene Daum Onur Güntürkün |
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| Institution: | 1. International Graduate School for Neuroscience (IGSN), Ruhr University Bochum , Bochum, Germany;2. Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum , Bochum, Germany annaabr@gmail.com;4. Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum , Bochum, Germany;5. School of Psychology, University of Plymouth , United Kingdom;6. Westf?lische Klinik für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie und Psychotherapie in der Haard , Marl, Germany;7. Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum , Bochum, Germany |
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| Abstract: | A widened attentional focus, that is typically associated with ADHD, has been postulated to be accompanied by enhanced creative ability. However, creativity has been only limitedly examined in ADHD. Performance across several creativity measures were investigated in three groups: adolescents with ADHD, those with conduct disorder, and a healthy control sample. The ADHD group exhibited selective cognitive advantages and disadvantages by demonstrating an enhanced ability in overcoming the constraining influence of examples, but a reduced capacity to generate a functional invention during an imagery task. These findings are interpreted with reference to inhibitory control mechanisms and the contextual modulation of creative cognition. |
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| Keywords: | creativity attention deficit hyperactivity disorder conduct disorder inhibitory control prefrontal function contextual modulation of information processing |
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