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 …

[LIVRE][B] Rethinking creativity: Inside-the-box thinking as the basis for innovation

RW Weisberg - 2020 - books.google.com
This book presents a new perspective on creativity: that creative innovation depends on
inside-of-the-box thinking. It shows that creativity builds on what we know and how we use …

Both attentional control and the ability to make remote associations aid spontaneous analogical transfer

PJ Cushen, J Wiley - Memory & cognition, 2018 - Springer
Given the widespread belief that analogical processing is an important mechanism for
creative problem solving, despite the rarity of spontaneous transfer in laboratory studies, a …

Conceptual change induced by analogical reasoning sparks aha moments

C Chesebrough, EG Chrysikou… - Creativity Research …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
An underexplored aspect of the relationship between analogical reasoning and creativity is
its phenomenology; in particular, the notion that analogical reasoning is related to insight …

Changes in semantic memory structure support successful problem-solving and analogical transfer

T Bieth, YN Kenett, M Ovando-Tellez… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
Creative problem-solving is central in daily life, yet its underlying mechanisms remain
elusive. Restructuring (ie, reorganization of problem-related representations) is considered …

Insight problem solving is not that special, but business is not quite'as usual': typical versus exceptional problem-solving strategies

N Salmon-Mordekovich, M Leikin - Psychological Research, 2023 - Springer
The intriguing phenomenon of insight (also known as the" Aha!" moment) has provoked a
long-standing conflict over its cognitive mechanism. The special-process theory posits …

La superficialité de l'évocation analogique: par défaut ou à défaut?

L Raynal, E Sander, É Clément - L'Année psychologique, 2024 - cairn.info
Si l'analogie est largement reconnue comme une composante centrale de la cognition
humaine, la question des rôles respectifs des similitudes de surface et de structure dans …

Training flexible categorization to improve arithmetic problem solving: A school-based intervention with 5th graders

E Iacono, H Gros, E Clément - … of the Annual Meeting of the …, 2022 - escholarship.org
Because of its importance in academic achievement, especially in mathematics, training
cognitive flexibility at school is a major issue. The present research investigates the …

[PDF][PDF] The hidden depth of memory: retrieval of autobiographical memories is structurally focused

L Raynal, E Clément, H Gros, E Sander - OSF Preprints, 2023 - researchgate.net
Whereas surface and structural features are often correlated in real-life situations, it is
necessary to disentangle them in experimental situations to determine their respective …

The Role of Curiosity1 and Curiosity2 in the Emergence of Insight

WJ Jacobs, J Metcalfe - The Emergence of Insight, 2024 - books.google.com
Insight, in problem solving, has been characterized as having four general characteristics
(see, eg, Wallas, 1926). First, insights occur only after a person has attempted …