Brain Science Behind The Aha Moment
Don’t bother me. I’m having an aha moment!
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What Do Aha Moments Feel Like?
Flex your brain and you may find out. Look at these three words. What’s another word that can combine with each word and produce a familiar compound or a two-word phrase?
loser / throat / spot
Here’s another:
show / life / row
Try some harder examples, knowing that the word you think of can combine at the beginning or the end of the words in the set:
crab / pine / sauce
fence / card / master
When you came up with a solution,* was it sudden and obvious? If so, you probably experienced an aha moment and found the solution by insight.
What Do Aha Moments Look Like in Your Brain?
Researchers John Kounios, Professor of Psychology at Drexel University, and Mark Jung-Beeman, Associate Professor of Psychology at...
