Verbal creativity in autism: comprehension and generation of metaphoric language in high-functioning autism spectrum disorder and typical development
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Verbal creativity in autism: comprehension and generation of metaphoric language in high-functioning autism spectrum disorder and typical development
Studies on creativity in participants with autism generally show impoverished performance as well as deficient comprehension of metaphoric language. However, very little is known about the ability to generate metaphors in this population. The present study examines verbal creativity in adults with autism-spectrum disorder (ASD) through tasks that rely on novel metaphoric language. Seventeen adu...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1662-5161
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00615