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 …

Solving classical insight problems without aha! experience: 9 dot, 8 coin, and matchstick arithmetic problems

AH Danek, J Wiley, M Öllinger - The Journal of Problem …, 2016 - docs.lib.purdue.edu
Insightful problem solving is a vital part of human thinking, yet very difficult to grasp.
Traditionally, insight has been investigated by using a set of established “insight tasks,” …

Intuition in insight and noninsight problem solving

J Metcalfe, D Wiebe - Memory & cognition, 1987 - Springer
People's metacognitions, both before and during problem solving, may be of importance in
motivating and guiding problem-solving behavior. These metacognitions could also be …

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 …

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 …

[PDF][PDF] Human performance on insight problem solving: A review

Y Chu, JN MacGregor - The Journal of Problem Solving, 2011 - docs.lib.purdue.edu
The article provides a review of recent research on insight problem-solving performance. We
discuss what insight problems are, the different types of classic and newer insight problems …

Gaining insight into the “Aha” experience

S Topolinski, R Reber - Current Directions in Psychological …, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
The literature on insight lists four main characteristics of this experience:(a) suddenness (the
experience is surprising and immediate), ease (the solution is processed without difficulty) …

Motivation through insight: the phenomenological correlates of insight and spatial ability tasks

ØO Skaar, R Reber - Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT In an experiment (n= 430), grounded in an integrative fluency account of the
phenomenology of the Aha-experience, we tested the assumption that problem solving …

The Aha! moment: Is insight a different form of problem solving?

H Stuyck, B Aben, A Cleeremans… - Consciousness and …, 2021 - Elsevier
In everyday life, we mainly solve problems with a conscious solution search (non-insight).
However, sometimes a perplexing problem is resolved by a quantum leap in understanding …

How to detect insight moments in problem solving experiments

RE Laukkonen, JM Tangen - Frontiers in psychology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Arguably, it is not possible to study insight moments during problem solving without being
able to accurately detect when they occur. Despite over a century of research on the insight …