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April 15, 2004 1:51 PM

Eureka! Brain scans reveal the neural processes correlated with moments of insight. [Via FuturePundit.]
posted by homunculus (3 comments total)

Holy crap, I know one of the authors. Very cool.
posted by mathowie at 2:02 PM on April 15, 2004

What this study shows is that when people solve a problem by 'sudden insight' instead of deliberate analysis, their aSTG shows activity. I guess it could serve as an aftereffect endpoint for out-of-the-box problem-solving. But it doesn't give clues as to how these people solve problems that way.
posted by Gyan at 2:15 PM on April 15, 2004

Yes, but even that is very cool, IMO.
posted by homunculus at 10:17 PM on April 15, 2004