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Creativity and Bilingualism
Author(s) -
RICCIARDELLI LINA A.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
the journal of creative behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.896
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 2162-6057
pISSN - 0022-0175
DOI - 10.1002/j.2162-6057.1992.tb01183.x
Subject(s) - neuroscience of multilingualism , creativity , psychology , linguistics , philosophy , neuroscience , social psychology
Summary of Studies A number of studies have investigated the relationship between creativity and bilingualism. Twenty‐four such studies have been surveyed by the author and these are summarized in Table 1. Twenty of these have found bilinguals to perform better than monolinguals on creativity. Only one study by Withey (1974) has found no differences between the bilinguals and monolinguals, whilst three studies, on the whole, have found a monolingual superiority (Gowan & Torrance, 1965; Lemmon & Goggin, 1989; Torrance, Wu, Gowan & Aliotti, 1970).