Three studies are reported that address the often described impoverished creativity in autism. Using the Torrance Creativity Tests, Experiment 1 found that children with autism and Asperger syndrome (AS) showed impairments. Experiment 2 tested two explanations of these results: the executive dysfunction and the imagination deficit hypotheses. Results supported both hypotheses. Children with aut...

Abstract This article discusses why it is the case that we refuse to accept strange evaluative claims as being true in fictions, even though are happy go along with other types of absurdities such contexts. For instance, would following statement true, context a fiction: (i) In killing her baby, Giselda did right thing; after all, was girl. offers sensibilist diagnosis this puzzle, inspired by ...

Intelligent storytelling systems either formalize specific narrative structures proposed by narratologists (such as Propp and Bremond), or are founded on formal representations from artificial intelligence (such as plan structures from classical planning). This disparity in underlying knowledge representations leads to a lack of common evaluation metrics across story generation systems, particu...