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The Eureka factor : aha moments, creative insight, and the brain  Cover Image Book Book

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

Kounios, John. (Author). Beeman, Mark. (Added Author).

Summary:

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

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781400068548 (hbk.)
  • ISBN: 1400068541 (hbk.)
  • Physical Description: xii, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Random House, [2015]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-263) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Subject: Insight.
Intuition.
Thought and thinking > Physiological aspects.
Higher nervous activity > Measurement.
Cognition > Physiological aspects.
Cognition > physiology.
Higher Nervous Activity.
Intuition.
Thinking.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.

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Kirtland Community College Library QP 395 .K68 2015 30775305502099 General Collection Available -


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