Journal article
The cognitive neuroscience of insight
Annual review of psychology, v 65(1)
2014
PMID: 24405359
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Abstract
Insight occurs when a person suddenly reinterprets a stimulus, situation, or event to produce a nonobvious, nondominant interpretation. This can take the form of a solution to a problem (an "aha moment"), comprehension of a joke or metaphor, or recognition of an ambiguous percept. Insight research began a century ago, but neuroimaging and electrophysiological techniques have been applied to its study only during the past decade. Recent work has revealed insight-related coarse semantic coding in the right hemisphere and internally focused attention preceding and during problem solving. Individual differences in the tendency to solve problems insightfully rather than in a deliberate, analytic fashion are associated with different patterns of resting-state brain activity. Recent studies have begun to apply direct brain stimulation to facilitate insight. In sum, the cognitive neuroscience of insight is an exciting new area of research with connections to fundamental neurocognitive processes.
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- Title
- The cognitive neuroscience of insight
- Creators
- John Kounios - Drexel UniversityMark Beeman - email: john.kounios@gmail.com.
- Publication Details
- Annual review of psychology, v 65(1)
- Publisher
- Annual Reviews
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences (Psychology)
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000329821700005
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84892157649
- Other Identifier
- 9780824302658; 0824302656; 991019168530804721
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- Web of Science research areas
- Psychology
- Psychology, Multidisciplinary