Ultra-high-field fMRI insights on insight: Neural correlates of the Aha!-moment.

ABSTRACT: Finding creative solutions to difficult problems is a fundamental aspect of human culture and a skill highly needed. However, the exact neural processes underlying creative problem solving remain unclear. Insightful problem solving tasks were shown to be a valid method for investigating one subcomponent of creativity: the Aha!-moment. Finding insightful solutions during a remote associates task (RAT) was found to elicit specific cortical activity changes. Considering the strong affective components of Aha!-moments, as manifested in the subjectively experienced feeling of relief following the sudden emergence of the solution of the problem without any conscious forewarning, we hypothesized the subcortical dopaminergic reward network to be critically engaged during Aha. To investigate those

SUBMITTER: Tik M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6055807 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature