After a person has become stuck on a problem, they sometimes achieve a clear and sudden
solution through insight–the so-called Aha! experience. Because of its distinctive …

Comprehension of natural language–stories, conversations, text–is very simple for those
doing the comprehending and very complex for cognitive neuroscientists. It also presents a …

People sometimes solve problems with a unique process called insight, accompanied by an
“Aha!” experience. It has long been unclear whether different cognitive and neural …

Literature provides us with otherwise unavailable insights into the ways emotions are
produced, experienced and enacted in human social life. It is particularly valuable because …

Insight problem solving is characterized by impasses, states of mind in which the thinker
does not know what to do next. The authors hypothesized that impasses are broken by …

A novel theory of Openness/Intellect is proposed, which integrates intelligence and positive
schizotypy (or apophenia, false detection of patterns or causal connections) within the Big …

These are just a few of the truly creative accomplishments of our species. When truly
creative ideas, pieces of art, or behavior occur, we all want to know: How did that happen …

A large and growing number of studies support the notion that arousing positive emotional
states expand, and that arousing negative states constrict, the scope of attention on both the …

In one experiment, we tested for an association between semantic activation in the right
hemisphere (RH) and left hemisphere (LH) and the Aha! experience when people recognize …

IV. CHILDREN'S FLEXIBLE THINKING ABOUT MEANINGS AND MESSAGES A.
DEVELOPMENT OF FLEXIBLE NAMING B. DEVELOPMENT OF DISCOURSE FLEXIBILITY …