Neurodiversity and Creative Cognition
Thinking Differently
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"This book gives the reader a comprehensive overview of the latest work on neurodiversity and creative cognition – the specific thought processes that produce creativity. It will bring the reader up to date on the extremely complex scientific neuroscience of creativity and also deals with environmental issues and evolution in relation to creativity."
Michael Fitzgerald, Henry Marsh Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Trinity College Dublin
Kevin Rebecchi is a researcher and lecturer at the Østfold University College (Halden, Norway), University of Liège (Liège, Belgium) and University Lumière Lyon 2 (Lyon, France). Holding two PhDs in Education and Psychology, his research focuses on neurodiversity, creativity, video games, and alternative education with the aim to challenge societal norms and promote inclusion.
This book offers a rigorous interdisciplinary examination of the cognitive mechanisms that underlie creativity in individuals with neuroatypical profiles, drawing on contemporary research in psychology, neuroscience, genetics, and the philosophy of mind to clarify how atypical attentional, perceptual, and motivational patterns can contribute to creative cognition.
Building on extensive historical, conceptual, and empirical analysis, the book traces how notions of neurodiversity, cognitive diversity, autism, and ADHD emerged and evolved, situating current debates within longer scientific and philosophical traditions. It synthesises key findings on neural hyperconnectivity, cognitive disinhibition, attention regulation, hemispheric asymmetry, and neurotransmitter systems, and demonstrates how these mechanisms, long framed in deficit‑based clinical terms, also support originality, associative richness, hyperfocus, and divergent thinking. Through its analysis of genetic, evolutionary, and sociocultural perspectives, the book proposes an integrated theoretical framework in which autistic, hyperactive, and other cognitively distinct profiles are understood as expressions of population‑level cognitive variability that can foster creativity under the right developmental and environmental conditions. This short volume also interrogates how social norms, psychiatric classifications, and educational practices shape the recognition, suppression, or cultivation of creative potential in neuroatypical individuals.
A valuable resource for scholars and students in psychology, neuroscience, creativity research, disability studies, critical neurodiversity studies, and the humanities, this book will also interest professionals in education, therapy, and creative industries seeking a scientifically grounded account of how cognitive diversity contributes to innovative thinking and problem‑solving across domains.
Explores the emerging links between neurodiversity and creativity through cutting-edge interdisciplinary research Advocates for a neuroaffermative approach for future research at the intersection of neurodiversity and creativity Proposes a new theoretical model that aligns neuroatypical cognition and creative cognition across domains and contexts
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Kevin Rebecchi
Themen in »Neurodiversity and Creative Cognition«
Creativity Neurodiversity Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Bipolar Disorder Neuroatypical Traits and Creative Cognition Disability Studies Mad Studies