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Amna Ghani; Caroline Di Bernardi Luft; Smadar Ovadio-Caro; Klaus-Robert Müller; Joydeep Bhattacharya – Creativity Research Journal, 2024
Chance favors the prepared mind, said Louis Pasteur. Sometimes, significant breakthroughs occur when we creatively integrate new information, leading to a creative insight or an Aha! moment, while at other times when we fail to use a clue, we remain stuck in our habitual thinking patterns. In this study, we hypothesized that the brain's transient…
Descriptors: Brain, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Cognitive Processes, Intuition
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Weisberg, Robert W. – Creativity Research Journal, 2013
Psychologists studying problem solving have, for over 100 years, been interested in the question of whether there are two different modes of solving problems. One mode--problem solving based on analysis--depends on application of past experience to the problem at hand and proceeds incrementally toward solution. The second mode--problem solving…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Neurosciences, Creative Thinking, Literature Reviews