Despite the presumed ability of insight problems to elicit the subjective feeling of insight, as
well as the use of so-called insight problems to investigate this phenomenon for over 100 …

Insight processes that peak in “unpredictable moments of exceptional thinking” are often
referred to as Aha! or Eureka moments. During insight, connections between previously …

Study 1 investigated whether the strength of correlation between latent variables
representing working memory capacity (WMC) and fluid intelligence (Gf) depends on the …

The ability to generate diverse ideas (divergent thinking) is valuable in solving creative
problems (eg, insight problems); yet, however advantageous, this ability is insufficient to …

In verbal creative problems like compound remote associates (CRAs), the solution is
semantically distant and there is no predefined path to the solution. Therefore, people first …

Insight problem solving has been conceptualized as a dynamic search through a
constrained search space, where a non-obvious solution needs to be found. Multiple …

The 'business as usual'approach to insight problem solving suggests that working memory
processes would have a prominent role in solving insight problems, as they do in non …

Previous studies have found discrepant results on the relationship between insight problem
solving and the processes underlying analytic thinking: storage capacity, executive control …

This study aimed to portray insightful problem solvers. Participants solved classic insight
problems and rebuses and completed cognitive and creativity tasks. Grouping the …

Available body of evidence concerning the relationship between insight problem solving
and working memory (WM) is ambiguous. Several authors propose that restructuring of the …