Psycholinguistic abilities and their influence on creative expression

Comparison of scores for 20 girls and 20 boys in Grade 3 obtained on the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities and the Torrance Tests of Thinking Creatively, Verbal and Nonverbal, Form A produced significant small to moderate correlations between figural fluency and Auditory Reception, Visual Association, Visual Sequential Memory and Sound Blending; figural flexibility and Auditory Reception, Auditory Closure and Sound Blending; figural originality and Sound Blending; figural elaboration and Auditory Reception, Visual Association, Visual Sequential Memory, Grammatic Closure, Manual Expression, Auditory Closure, and Sound Blending. Manual Expression correlated significantly with verbal fluency, flexibility and elaboration.