Creativity and dementia: a review

Palmiero, Massimiliano; Giacomo, Dina Di; Passafiume, Domenico

doi:10.1007/s10339-012-0439-y

“…In order for this notion of paradoxical functional facilitation to be applied to the study of creativity in patients with dementia, objective evaluations of the works of art are needed (Palmiero et al, 2012). The purpose of this work was to address this issue, exploring the experts' appraisals of the artistic productions of people with dementia who had participated in a program of contemporary art education.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The relationship between dementia and creativity can be explored from different points of view (Palmiero, Di Giacomo, & Passafiume, 2012). The degree to which dementia affects the cognitive processes involved in creative tasks in general, such as the application of knowledge, analogy, the combination of elements, and abstraction (Welling, 2007), or how dementia affects specific domain components like visual restructuring can be analyzed (Palmiero, Nakatani, Raver, Belardinelli, & van Leeuwen, 2010).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Art galleries, episodic memory and verbal fluency in dementia: An exploratory study.

Eekelaar

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Camic

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Springham

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2012

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

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Abstract. The goal of this study was to determine whether experts attribute a series of images created by people with dementia who were participating in a program of contemporary art education to artists or to people without prior artistic experience. In this way, we sought to obtain an indicator of the artistic quality of the images produced by people with dementia. Participants were 122 specialists in art to whom were presented 30 images, 15 works by professional artists and 15 created by people with dementia. For each of the 15 images created by the people with dementia, we calculated the proportion of experts who attributed the image to a professional artist. The results indicated that, in a significant number of cases, which varied according to the images, the experts attributed the images to professional artists. The judgment of the experts reinforcing the idea of the creative potential of people with dementia. Keywords: Art; dementia; artists; creativity.[es] Creatividad artística y demencia. Un estudio de evaluación por expertos Resumen. El objetivo de este estudio fue determinar si expertos atribuían a artistas o a personas sin experiencia artística previa una serie de imágenes creadas por personas con demencia que participaban en un programa de educación artística contemporánea. De esta manera, buscamos obtener un indicador de la calidad artística de las imágenes producidas por personas con demencia. Participaron en el trabajo 122 especialistas en arte a los que se presentaron 30 imágenes, 15 obras de artistas profesionales y 15 creadas por personas con demencia. Para cada una de las 15 imágenes creadas por las personas con demencia, calculamos la proporción de expertos que atribuyeron la imagen a un artista profesional. Los resultados indicaron que, en un número significativo de casos, que variaron según las imágenes, los expertos atribuyeron las imágenes a artistas profesionales. El juicio de los expertos refuerza la idea del potencial creativo de las personas con demencia.

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“…The judgment of the experts, who were unaware of the goals of the program and of the clinical characteristics of the patients involved in it, corroborates the technicians' observation, reinforcing the idea of the creative potential of people with dementia. Although cognitive impairment in dementia has been widely studied, research has paid relatively little attention to changes in creativity during the illness (Palmiero et al, 2012). However, the documented experiences agree that dementia itself is not an obstacle to artistic cultural consumption, such as visits to art galleries or museums (Camic, Tischler, & Pearman, 2014;MacPherson et al, 2009;Young (Folstein, Folstein, & McHugh, 1975) ** GDS Score on the Global Deterioration Scale (Reisberg et al, 1982) AD: Alzheimer's disease et al, 2015).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Palmiero et al (2012) have reviewed studies on creativity and dementia, reporting that stylistic and aesthetic criteria are only taken into account in the assessment of the works produced by artists, whereas when appraising works produced by people who are not artists, artistic creation is only considered as a means to express emotions. These authors suggest further exploring this issue in order to determine whether works of art by patients with dementia match the criteria of creativity, regardless of whether or not these people had performed artistic activities prior to their illness.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Artistic creativity and dementia. A study of assessment by experts

Belver

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Ullán

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2017

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Abstract. The goal of this study was to determine whether experts attribute a series of images created by people with dementia who were participating in a program of contemporary art education to artists or to people without prior artistic experience. In this way, we sought to obtain an indicator of the artistic quality of the images produced by people with dementia. Participants were 122 specialists in art to whom were presented 30 images, 15 works by professional artists and 15 created by people with dementia. For each of the 15 images created by the people with dementia, we calculated the proportion of experts who attributed the image to a professional artist. The results indicated that, in a significant number of cases, which varied according to the images, the experts attributed the images to professional artists. The judgment of the experts reinforcing the idea of the creative potential of people with dementia. Keywords: Art; dementia; artists; creativity.[es] Creatividad artística y demencia. Un estudio de evaluación por expertos Resumen. El objetivo de este estudio fue determinar si expertos atribuían a artistas o a personas sin experiencia artística previa una serie de imágenes creadas por personas con demencia que participaban en un programa de educación artística contemporánea. De esta manera, buscamos obtener un indicador de la calidad artística de las imágenes producidas por personas con demencia. Participaron en el trabajo 122 especialistas en arte a los que se presentaron 30 imágenes, 15 obras de artistas profesionales y 15 creadas por personas con demencia. Para cada una de las 15 imágenes creadas por las personas con demencia, calculamos la proporción de expertos que atribuyeron la imagen a un artista profesional. Los resultados indicaron que, en un número significativo de casos, que variaron según las imágenes, los expertos atribuyeron las imágenes a artistas profesionales. El juicio de los expertos refuerza la idea del potencial creativo de las personas con demencia.

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“…When attempting to understand the neurobiology of creativity and creative processes, one does not immediately look to the neurodegenerative diseases for insight [23]. The obvious and reasonable view of progressive neurodegenerative processes is that they operate only to impair cognition and function in a progressive fashion.…”

Section: Neurological Illness and Creativitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Neuropsychiatry of creativity

Mula

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Hermann

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Trimble

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2016

Epilepsy & Behavior

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In this paper we review in brief the development of ideas that over time have tried to understand why some individuals are more creative than others, and what may be the neurobiological links underlying artistic creativity. We note associations to another unique human idea, that of genius. In particular we discuss frontal-temporal dementia and bipolar, cyclothymic mood disorder as clinical conditions that are helping to unravel the underlying neuroanatomy and neurochemistry of human creativity.

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Creativity and dementia: a review

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Art galleries, episodic memory and verbal fluency in dementia: An exploratory study.

Art galleries, episodic memory and verbal fluency in dementia: An exploratory study.

Artistic creativity and dementia. A study of assessment by experts

Neuropsychiatry of creativity

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