The Eureka factor : aha moments, creative insight, and the brain / John Kounios and Mark Beeman.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Random House, [2015]Copyright date: Edition: First editionDescription: xii, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781400068548
  • 1400068541
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 612.8/2332 23
LOC classification:
  • QP395 .K65 2015
NLM classification:
  • WL 102
Contents:
New light, new sight -- Insight illustrated -- The box -- All of a sudden ... -- Outside the box, inside the brain -- The best of both worlds -- Tuning out and gearing up -- The incubator -- In the mood -- Your brain knows more than you do -- The insightful and the analyst -- Carrots and sticks -- Far, different, unreal, creative -- The state.
Summary: John Kounios and Mark Beeman explain how insights arise and what the scientific research says about stimulating more of them.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-263) and index.

New light, new sight -- Insight illustrated -- The box -- All of a sudden ... -- Outside the box, inside the brain -- The best of both worlds -- Tuning out and gearing up -- The incubator -- In the mood -- Your brain knows more than you do -- The insightful and the analyst -- Carrots and sticks -- Far, different, unreal, creative -- The state.

John Kounios and Mark Beeman explain how insights arise and what the scientific research says about stimulating more of them.

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