caa a22 4500 386354375 CHVBK 20180307111845.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198905 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0033291700012484 doi S0033291700012484 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0033291700012484 Intelligence and musical improvisation [Elektronische Daten] We investigated whether somebody with a severe mental impairment could not only remember and reproduce music, but was also able to generate it. Musical improvisation requires the ability to recognize constraints and also demands inventiveness. Musical improvisations on a traditional, tonal and also on a whole tone scale composition were produced by a mentally handicapped and by a normal control musician. It was found that not only the control but also the handicapped subject could improvise appropriately within structural constraints, although with the tonal music the idiot-savant showed some stylistic latitude. It is concluded that cognitive processes such as musical input analysis, decision making, and output monitoring are independent of general intellectual status. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Hermelin B. MRC Development Psychology Project, Institute of Education, University of London O'Connor N. MRC Development Psychology Project, Institute of Education, University of London Lee S. MRC Development Psychology Project, Institute of Education, University of London Treffert D. MRC Development Psychology Project, Institute of Education, University of London Psychological Medicine Cambridge University Press 19/2(1989-05), 447-457 0033-2917 19:2<447 1989 19 PSM https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291700012484 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291700012484 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hermelin B. MRC Development Psychology Project, Institute of Education, University of London NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- O'Connor N. MRC Development Psychology Project, Institute of Education, University of London NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lee S. MRC Development Psychology Project, Institute of Education, University of London NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Treffert D. MRC Development Psychology Project, Institute of Education, University of London NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Psychological Medicine Cambridge University Press 19/2(1989-05), 447-457 0033-2917 19:2<447 1989 19 PSM CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge