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Remote Brainwaves Predict Future 'Eureka' Moment

Posted September 12, 2008 9:25 AM

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The brain mechanism underlying the eureka or "ah-ha" moment is poorly understood. What happens in the brain during that particular moment? Is that moment purely sudden as often reported by the solver or is there any (neural) precursor to it? Can we predict whether and when, if at all, the solver will hit upon the final eureka moment? New research addresses these questions by measuring brainwaves of human participants as they attempted to solve puzzles or brainteasers that call for intuitive strategies and novel insight.

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09/13/2008 9:54 AM

Wait a sec - I think I'm going to know the answer to that any time now...

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09/13/2008 1:51 PM

Yes:

I know that Golden Moment to answer the question has passed. Two min later I got it and gotta walk away mumbling to my self. My insight comes during the design phase when I finally decide to put it together with no one around of course.

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09/22/2008 1:07 AM

<....They detected an array of specific patterns in characteristic brainwaves which occurred several (up to 8) seconds before the participant was consciously aware of an insight. Right hemisphere was further found to be critically involved in transformative reasoning.

These results indicate that insight is a distinct spectral, spatial, and temporal pattern of unconscious neural activity corresponding to pre-solution cognitive processes, and not to one's self-assessment of their insight or the emotional "Aha!" that accompanies problem solution. Further, this study also postulates that consciousness is like an emergent tip of an iceberg of neuronal information processing, and remote brainwave patterns could reveal the underlying structure leading to that emergence.....">

What all that is saying, is that the creative person is a Lateral Thinker.

Now that was easier to understand, without all the wordbabble, wasn't it.

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09/22/2008 6:59 AM

"...consciousness is like an emergent tip of an iceberg of neuronal information processing..."

What a Titanic mental concept...

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