- Oxford Library of Psychology
- [UNTITLED]
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Oxford Library of Psychology
- About the Editor
- Contributors
- Transcending Time, Place, and/or Circumstance: An Introduction
- Historical Overview of Research on Imagination in Children
- Fairy Tales, History, and Religion
- Magical Thinking
- Beliefs in Magical Beings and Cultural Myths
- Distinguishing Imagination from Reality
- Children’s Source Monitoring of Memories for Imagination
- Suggestibility and Imagination in Early Childhood
- Child Witnesses and Imagination: Lying, Hypothetical Reasoning, and Referential Ambiguity
- Fictional Worlds, the Neuroscience of the Imagination, and Childhood Education
- Executive Function, Pretend Play, and Imagination
- The Distinction Between Role-Play and Object Substitution in Pretend Play
- How Do Children Represent Pretend Play?
- Culture, Narrative, and Imagination
- Flux and Flow in Children’s Narratives
- Pretend Play as Culturally Constructed Activity
- Imaginary Relationships
- Imagining Other Minds: Anthropomorphism Is Hair-Triggered but Not Hare-Brained
- Imagination and the Self
- Future Thinking in Young Children
- Counterfactuals and Reality
- Causality and Imagination
- What Children Understand About the Flow of Mental Life
- Imagination and Personal Creativity
- Individual Differences in the Development of Social Creativity
- The Relationship Between Pretend Play and Creativity
- The Creation of Imaginary Worlds
- The Influence of Television, Video Games, and the Internet on Children’s Creativity
- On the Evolution of Imagination and Design
- The Comparative Study of Imagination
- Imagination and Dissociation Across the Life Span
- The Development of Imagination in Children with Autism
- The Role of Pretend Play in Child Psychotherapy
- Imagination-Based Interventions with Children
- Telling Stories: Accessing Narrative Imagination for Use in Assessment with Clinical and Typical Populations
- Imagination and Coping with Chronic Illness
- Looking Ahead: Some Thoughts About Future Directions
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
It is widely assumed that people with autism have a deficit in imagination, but it is not always clearly specified what exactly this deficit might entail. In fact research on mental imagery, pretense, and into other forms of creativity such as art or poetry indicates that many people with autism actually have significant talent. This chapter discusses what it is about imagination that is difficult in autism versus what appears intact, and what these patterns of strengths and weaknesses can tell us about imagination as a concept, as well as about the patterns of processing that characterize autism spectrum disorder.
Keywords: Asperger syndrome, autism, creativity, flexibility, imagination, mental imagery, savant, visual imagery
Fiona J. Scott, Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge
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- Oxford Library of Psychology
- [UNTITLED]
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Oxford Library of Psychology
- About the Editor
- Contributors
- Transcending Time, Place, and/or Circumstance: An Introduction
- Historical Overview of Research on Imagination in Children
- Fairy Tales, History, and Religion
- Magical Thinking
- Beliefs in Magical Beings and Cultural Myths
- Distinguishing Imagination from Reality
- Children’s Source Monitoring of Memories for Imagination
- Suggestibility and Imagination in Early Childhood
- Child Witnesses and Imagination: Lying, Hypothetical Reasoning, and Referential Ambiguity
- Fictional Worlds, the Neuroscience of the Imagination, and Childhood Education
- Executive Function, Pretend Play, and Imagination
- The Distinction Between Role-Play and Object Substitution in Pretend Play
- How Do Children Represent Pretend Play?
- Culture, Narrative, and Imagination
- Flux and Flow in Children’s Narratives
- Pretend Play as Culturally Constructed Activity
- Imaginary Relationships
- Imagining Other Minds: Anthropomorphism Is Hair-Triggered but Not Hare-Brained
- Imagination and the Self
- Future Thinking in Young Children
- Counterfactuals and Reality
- Causality and Imagination
- What Children Understand About the Flow of Mental Life
- Imagination and Personal Creativity
- Individual Differences in the Development of Social Creativity
- The Relationship Between Pretend Play and Creativity
- The Creation of Imaginary Worlds
- The Influence of Television, Video Games, and the Internet on Children’s Creativity
- On the Evolution of Imagination and Design
- The Comparative Study of Imagination
- Imagination and Dissociation Across the Life Span
- The Development of Imagination in Children with Autism
- The Role of Pretend Play in Child Psychotherapy
- Imagination-Based Interventions with Children
- Telling Stories: Accessing Narrative Imagination for Use in Assessment with Clinical and Typical Populations
- Imagination and Coping with Chronic Illness
- Looking Ahead: Some Thoughts About Future Directions
- Index