Lack of coherence and divergent thinking: Two sides of the same coin in artistic talent?
Ryder, Nicola; Pring, Linda and Hermelin, Beate.
2002.
Lack of coherence and divergent thinking: Two sides of the same coin in artistic talent?
Current Psychology, 21(2),
pp. 168-175.
ISSN 0737-8262
[Article]
The aim of this study was to identify some of the underlying cognitive components of artistic talent. The participants in this study were an artistically gifted group of young adults, and a group of controls with no such talent but matched on intelligence. Two components were investigated, one was a preference for local over global processing and others were measures of divergent thinking. The results supported the hypothesis that talented artists might, in contrast to others, show a distinctive cognitive style which may be linked to divergent thinking.
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| Additional Information |
Please visit the author's web page at http://www.gold.ac.uk/psychology/staff/pring/ for full text. |
| Subjects |
Biological Sciences > Cognitive Psychology Biological Sciences > Applied Psychology Biological Sciences > Psychology |
| Departments, Centres and Research Units | Psychology |
| Date Deposited | 11 Feb 2010 16:00 |
| Last Modified | 19 Mar 2019 11:48 |