title: Creative thinking in adolescents with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
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.
authors.affiliation: International Graduate School for Neuroscience (IGSN), Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany. annaabr@gmail.com
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Abraham
authors.forename: Sabine
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Windmann
authors.forename: Rainer
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Siefen
authors.forename: Irene
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Daum
authors.forename: Onur
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Güntürkün
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D003405:Creativity; D039721:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D013850:Thinking