Tag Archives: insight

Incubation in Insight Problem Solving

Posted on July 17, 2012 by Giorgio Bertini

A break in the attentive activity devoted to a problem may eventually facilitate the solution process. This phenomenon is known by the name incubation. A new hypothesis regarding incubation mechanism is suggested. It is based on analysis of the structure … Continue reading →

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A “Small-World” Network Model of Cognitive Insight

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Giorgio Bertini

Despite many decades of study, scientists still puzzle over the process of insight. By what mechanism does a person experience that “Aha!” moment, when sudden clarity emerges from a tangled web of thoughts and ideas? This research integrates psychological work … Continue reading →

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The Aha! Moment – The Cognitive Neuroscience of Insight

Posted on September 21, 2011 by Giorgio Bertini

A sudden comprehension that solves a problem, reinterprets a situation, explains a joke, or resolves an ambiguous percept is called an insight (i.e., the “Aha! moment”). Psychologists have studied insight using behavioral methods for nearly a century. Recently, the tools … Continue reading →

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Guidelines for Leveraging Collective Knowledge and Insight

Posted on May 5, 2011 by Giorgio Bertini

Read Knowledge workers in any organization have a wealth of insights that are available to their organization to address the difficult issues the organization is facing. Drawing out those insights requires bringing knowledge workers together in meetings that are expressly … Continue reading →