Mental navigation and the neural mechanisms of insight

J Aru, M Drüke, J Pikamäe, ME Larkum - Trends in Neurosciences, 2023 - cell.com
How do new ideas come about? The central hypothesis presented here states that insights
might happen during mental navigation and correspond to rapid plasticity at the cellular …

Restructuring insight: An integrative review of insight in problem-solving, meditation, psychotherapy, delusions and psychedelics

K Tulver, KK Kaup, R Laukkonen, J Aru - Consciousness and cognition, 2023 - Elsevier
Occasionally, a solution or idea arrives as a sudden understanding-an insight. Insight has
been considered an “extra” ingredient of creative thinking and problem-solving. Here we …

What about false insights? Deconstructing the Aha! experience along its multiple dimensions for correct and incorrect solutions separately

AH Danek, J Wiley - Frontiers in psychology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
The subjective Aha! experience that problem solvers often report when they find a solution
has been taken as a marker for insight. If Aha! is closely linked to insightful solution …

Insight is not in the problem: Investigating insight in problem solving across task types

ME Webb, DR Little, SJ Cropper - Frontiers in psychology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
The feeling of insight in problem solving is typically associated with the sudden realization of
a solution that appears obviously correct (Kounios et al.,). Salvi et al. found that a solution …

An insight-related neural reward signal

Y Oh, C Chesebrough, B Erickson, F Zhang, J Kounios - NeuroImage, 2020 - Elsevier
Moments of insight, a phenomenon of creative cognition in which an idea suddenly emerges
into awareness as an “Aha!” are often reported to be affectively positive experiences. We …

What causes the insight memory advantage?

AH Danek, J Wiley - Cognition, 2020 - Elsevier
Prior research indicates that solutions accompanied by an Aha! experience are remembered
better than those missing this feeling of epiphany. The question for the present studies was …

Closing the gap: connecting sudden representational change to the subjective Aha! experience in insightful problem solving

AH Danek, J Williams, J Wiley - Psychological research, 2020 - Springer
Two hallmarks of insightful problem solving are thought to be suddenness in the emergence
of solution due to changes in problem representation, and the subjective Aha! experience …

Once more with feeling: Normative data for the aha experience in insight and noninsight problems

ME Webb, DR Little, SJ Cropper - Behavior research methods, 2018 - Springer
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 …

Curiosity evolves as information unfolds

A Hsiung, JH Poh, SA Huettel… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
When people feel curious, they often seek information to resolve their curiosity. Reaching
resolution, however, does not always occur in a single step but instead may follow the …

In search of the 'Aha!'experience: Elucidating the emotionality of insight problem‐solving

W Shen, Y Yuan, C Liu, J Luo - British Journal of Psychology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Although the experience of insight has long been noted, the essence of the
'Aha!'experience, reflecting a sudden change in the brain that accompanies an insight …