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Research Publications

Creativity and Artistic Expression

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Creativity in savant artists with autism

  • Description: Investigates the nature of creativity in savant artists with autism, highlighting unique characteristics of   their artistic expression.

  • Authors:  Pring, L., Ryder, N., Crane, L., & Hermelin, B.

  • Published: 2012

  • Journal: Autism, 16(1), 45-57

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Young adults with Asperger's syndrome: A psycho-social analysis of their drawings

  • Analyzes drawings made by young adults with Asperger's syndrome, providing insights into their artistic   expression and socio-emotional experiences, in comparison to drawings by neurotypical individuals.

  • Authors: Fitzgerald, M., & O'Brien, J.

  • Journal: 2007 European Journal of Special Needs Education, 22(1), 77-88

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Annotation: The savant syndrome

  • Description: Provides an overview of the savant syndrome, including discussions on exceptional artistic abilities   exhibited by some individuals.

  • Authors: Heaton, P., & Wallace, G.

  • Journal: 2004 Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 45(5), 899-911

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Savants, segments, art and autism

  • Description: Examines the relationship between autism and artistic savant abilities, providing insights into the   cognitive processes underlying artistic talent.

  • Authors: Pring, L., Hermelin, B., & Heavey, L.

  • Journal: 1995 Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 36(6), 1065-1076

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The Artistic Genius of Autistic Savants

  • Description: Explores the artistic abilities of autistic savants, providing insights into their unique creative processes   and exceptional talent.

  • Authors: Amend, D.

  • Journal: 1995 Exceptional Children, 62(2), 200-214

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Psychological Experiments with Autistic Children

  • Description: Seminal work including observations and experiments on the artistic abilities of autistic children compared to neurotypical children, laying the groundwork for further research.

  • Authors: Hermelin, B., & O'Connor, N.

  • Journal: 1963 Pergamon Press

Creativity and Musical Ability

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Local and global processing of music in high-functioning persons with autism: Beyond central coherence?

  • Description: Explores music processing in individuals with autism, challenging the notion of weak central coherence   in autism spectrum disorder. Investigates music perception in individuals with autism, providing insights   into their auditory creativity and processing styles.

  • Authors: Mottron, L., Peretz, I., & Ménard, E.

  • Journal: 2000 Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 41(8), 1057-1065

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Autism and pitch processing: a precursor for savant musical ability?

  • Description: Investigates pitch processing in individuals with autism, exploring its potential link to the development   of  savant musical abilities.

  • Authors: Heaton, P., Pring, L., & Hermelin, B.

  • Journal: 1999 Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 17(2), 163-169

Cognitive processing

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Brief report: The level and nature of autistic intelligence revisited

  • Description: Revisits the concept of autistic intelligence, providing insights into its level and nature in individuals with   autism spectrum disorder. While primarily focused on intelligence, touches upon aspects of creativity   and cognitive abilities in individuals with autism.

  • Authors: Bölte, S., Dziobek, I., & Poustka, F.

  • Journal: 2009 Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 39(4), 678-682

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What aspects of autism predispose to talent?

  • Description: Explores cognitive traits that might predispose individuals with autism to excel in certain domains of   creativity, highlighting differences in cognitive processing between autistic and neurotypical individuals.

  • Authors: Happé, F., & Vital, P.

  • Journal: 2009 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 364(1522), 1369-1375

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Explaining and inducing savant skills: privileged access to lower level, less-processed information

  • Descrption: Discusses the cognitive mechanisms underlying savant skills.

  • Author: Snyder, A.

  • Journal: 2009 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 364(1522), 1399-1405

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The savant syndrome: an extraordinary condition. A synopsis: past, present, future

  • Description: Provides an overview of savant syndrome, including discussions on exceptional abilities, including   artistic talents, exhibited by some individuals.

  • Author: Treffert, D. A.

  • Journal: 2009 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 364(1522), 1351-1357

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Thinking in pictures: My life with autism

  • Description: Temple Grandin's autobiographical work provides insights into her visual thinking style and how it has   influenced her creative problem-solving skills and artistic expression, highlighting differences between   autistic and neurotypical perspectives.

  • Author: Grandin, T.

  • Journal: 2009 Vintage

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The broader cognitive phenotype of autism in parents: how specific is the tendency for local processing and executive dysfunction?

  • Description: Explores cognitive traits associated with autism, including local processing, which may influence artistic   perception and problem-solving abilities vs. neurotypical individuals.

  • Authors: Bölte, S., & Poustka, F.

  • Journal: 2006 Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 47(6), 639-645

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Enhanced perceptual functioning in autism: an update, and eight principles of autistic perception

  • Description: Discusses enhanced perceptual processing in autism and its implications for understanding autistic   perception and cognition.

  • Authors: Mottron, L., Dawson, M., Soulières, I., Hubert, B., & Burack, J.

  • Journal: 2006 Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 36(1), 27-43

 

Does the autistic brain lack core modules?

  • Description: Explores the idea of core cognitive modules in autism, challenging the notion of deficits in fundamental   cognitive processes.

  • Authors: Mottron, L., Dawson, M., Soulières, I., Hubert, B., & Burack, J.

  • Journal: 2006 Journal of Developmental and Learning Disorders, 9(3), 3-16

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Autism: A window onto the development of the social and the analytic brain

  • Description: Discusses cognitive and neural differences associated with autism. Also explores autism as a lens for   understanding social and analytical brain development. 

  • Authors: Baron-Cohen, S., & Belmonte, M. K.

  • Journal: 2005 Annual Review of Neuroscience, 28, 109-126

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Reduced generalization in autism: an alternative to weak central coherence

  • Description: Proposes reduced generalization as an alternative explanation to weak central coherence theory in   autism spectrum disorder.

  • Author: Plaisted, K.

  • Journal: 2001 In The Development of Autism: Perspectives from Theory and Research (pp. 149-169). Psychology Press

 

Is integer arithmetic fundamental to mental processing?: The mind's secret   arithmetic

  • Description: Discusses the role of integer arithmetic in savant abilities.

  • Authors: Snyder, A., & Mitchell, D. J.

  • Journal: 1999 Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 266(1422), 587-592

Perception, Behavior and Interaction

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Neurotypical peers are less willing to interact with those with autism based on thin slice judgments

  • Description: Examines social perception differences between autistic and neurotypical individuals.

  • Authors: Sasson, N. J., Faso, D. J., Nugent, J., Lovell, S., Kennedy, D. P., & Grossman, R. B.

  • Journal: 2017 Scientific Reports, 7(1), 40700

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Evaluating posed and evoked facial expressions of emotion from adults with autism spectrum disorder

  • Description: Examines facial expression recognition in adults with autism spectrum disorder, shedding light on   emotional processing in this population.

  • Authors: Faso, D. J., Sasson, N. J., & Pinkham, A. E.

  • Journal: 2015 Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 45(1), 75-89

 

Autism as a disorder of prediction

  • Description: Proposes a predictive coding model of autism, suggesting differences in how autistic individuals   perceive and anticipate sensory information.

  • Authors: Sinha, P., Kjelgaard, M. M., Gandhi, T. K., Tsourides, K., Cardinaux, A. L., Pantazis, D., ... & Held, R. M.

  • Journal: 2014 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(42), 15220-15225

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An exploration of sensory and movement differences from the perspective of individuals with autism

  • Description: Explores sensory and movement differences in autism, offering insights into their implications for   perception and behavior.

  • Authors: Robledo, J., Donnellan, A. M., & Strandt-Conroy, K.

  • Journal: 2012 Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 6, 107

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Self-perception and theory of mind - Dealing with complexity in ASD

  • Description: Discusses self-perception and theory of mind in individuals with autism.

  • Authors: Bölte, S., & Dziobek, I.

  • Journal: 2010 In M. R. Mohammadi (Ed.), The Open Psychology Journal (Vol. 3, pp. 53-63). Bentham Science Publishers

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Visual fixation patterns during viewing of naturalistic social situations as predictors of social competence in individuals with autism

  • Description: Examines visual processing patterns in individuals with autism during social situations and their   relationship with social competence. 

  • Authors: Klin, A., Jones, W., Schultz, R., Volkmar, F., & Cohen, D.

  • Journal: 2002 Archives of General Psychiatry, 59(9), 809-816

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Linking theory of mind and central coherence bias in autism and in the general population

  • Description: Investigates the relationship between theory of mind and central coherence bias in individuals with   autism and the general population.

  • Authors: Jarrold, C., Butler, D. W., Cottington, E. M., & Jiménez, F.

  • Journal: 2000 Developmental Psychology, 36(1), 126-138

 

Emotion recognition in autism: coordinating faces and voices

  • Description: Investigates emotion recognition in autism, particularly the coordination of facial and vocal cues in   emotional expression perception. Also touches upon the socio-emotional aspects of creativity in   individuals with autism.

  • Authors: Hobson, R. P., Ouston, J., & Lee, A.

  • Journal: 1988 Psychological Medicine, 18(4), 911-923

Living and Development

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The beautiful otherness of the autistic mind

  • Description: The paper delves into the unique cognitive perspective of individuals with autism, emphasizing its   beauty and distinctiveness.

  • Authors: Happé, F., & Frith, U.

  • Journal: 2009 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 364(1522), 1345-1350

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Emulation and mimicry for social interaction: a theoretical approach to imitation in autism

  • Description: Presents a theoretical approach to imitation in autism, emphasizing its role in social interaction and   communication.

  • Author: Hamilton, A. F.

  • Journal: 2008 The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 61(1), 101-115

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Outcome in high-functioning adults with autism with and without early language delays: implications for the differentiation between autism and Asperger syndrome

  • Description: Examines language delays of autistic individuals. Also touches upon the artistic abilities of high-   functioning adults with autism.

  • Author: Howlin, P.

  • Journal: 2003 Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 33(1), 3-13

 

Autism spectrum disorders at 20 and 42 months of age: Stability of clinical and ADI-R diagnosis

  • Description: Investigates the stability of autism spectrum disorder diagnosis over time, shedding light on the   developmental trajectory of the condition.

  • Authors: Cox, A., Klein, K., Charman, T., Baird, G., Baron-Cohen, S., Swettenham, J., ... & Wheelwright, S.

  • Journal: 1999 Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 40(5), 719-732

 

An inside view of autism

  • Description: Offers an autobiographical account of autism from the perspective of Temple Grandin, providing unique   insights into the condition.

  • Author: Grandin, T.

  • Journal: 1995 Exceptional Children, 62(2), 200-214

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