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 …

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 …

Insight occurs when problem solutions arise suddenly and seem obviously correct, and is
associated with an “Aha!” experience. Prior theorizing concerning preparation that facilitates …

Pioneering neuroimaging studies on insight have revealed neural correlates of the
emotional “Aha!” component of the insight process, but neural substrates of the cognitive …

A sudden comprehension that solves a problem, reinterprets a situation, explains a joke, or
resolves an ambiguous percept is called an insight (ie, the “Aha! moment”). Psychologists …

Background Cognitive insight phenomenon lies at the core of numerous discoveries.
Behavioral research indicates four salient features of insightful problem solving:(i) mental …

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 …

What are the neural correlates of insight solutions? To explore this question we asked
participants to perform an anagram task while in the fMRI scanner. Previous research …

Problem-solving is essential for advances in cultural, social, and scientific knowledge. It is
also one of the most challenging cognitive processes to facilitate. Some problem-solving is …

People can solve problems in more than one way. Two general strategies involve (A)
methodical, conscious, search of problem-state transformations, and (B) sudden insight, with …