NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF ARTISTIC CREATIVITY
Journal Title: Acta Neuropsychologica - Year 2008, Vol 6, Issue 2
Abstract
Most traditional neuropsychological work concerns aspects of cognition in the most ordinary sense: how the average person perceives and represents the world, and how she acts in response to what is perceived or felt. The extraordinary perception and action of artists has been a subject of fascination for some neuropsychologists at least since Alajouanine, but little systematic work has been done recently. The present study attempts a review of the problem based on a number of published cases of famous artists, including especially painters and poets. The basis for interpretation is one of the most recurrent problems in neuropsychology, the asymmetry of the cerebral hemispheres. There have been many clinical observations that a right-hemisphere lesion is very disruptive of creative work in general; it is less well known, but has been documented, that left-hemisphere lesions can seem to actually liberate artistic potential. The present study re-examines the patients described by Alajouanine and Luria et al., then takes up a series of other documented cases: the famous novelist Dostoevsky, who suffered from epilepsy; the painters Vrubel, Munk, and Zhukovsky, and finally Alexander Pushkin, who liked to draw profiles of various people, including himself, and whose mental problems are well documented.
Authors and Affiliations
Nikolay Nikolaenko, Maria Pąchalska
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP55295
- DOI -
- Views 91
- Downloads 0
PROMOTING THE GENERALIZATION OF VERBAL BEHAVIORS IN AUTISTIC CHILD
[b]Background:[/b] One of the most important deficits characteristic of autistic children is little or no skill in generalizing learned concepts. Research conducted by specialists involved in Applied Behavior Analysis (A...
PSYCHOLOGICAL RESOURCES OF CAREGIVERS OF INDIVIDUALS SUFFERING FROM PARKINSON’S DISEASE, AND THEIR DECLARED FEELING OF BURDEN
The subject literature identifies many predictors of a feeling of burden, yet it often ignores aspects of the psychological and social functioning of caregivers, i.e., resources for efficiently coping with a difficult si...
ANALYSIS OF BRAIN ACTIVATION IN TEENAGERS WITH ISOLATED DYSORTHOGRAPHY (SPELLING DISORDER) AND GOOD SPELLERS DURING A SPELLING ASSESSMENT TASK
There has been little research on the neural correlates of writing in children and teenagers. The purpose of the present study was to describe brain activation in a group of teenagers with isolated dysorthograph...
ATTENTION PROCESSES IN MINDFULNESS: THE INFLUENCE OF MINDFULNESS INTERVENTION ON PERFORMING STROOP BASED TASKS
Mindfulness is a promising method, based on ideas of eastern culture, used in behavioural and cognitive therapy. These ideas emphasise the health role of meditation in a person’s life. An application of mindfulness inter...
On the relation between hermeneutics and neuropsychology
Comprehension as such appeared as the object of research in the 19th century, and has become the basic object of interest in hermeneutics – originally the art or science of understanding texts, more recently a theory of...