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Aha Moments

Colin Wright
Mar 21, 2024
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Aha Moments

Colin Wright
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December 14, 2023

There’s some evidence that “aha moments”—sudden insights that seem to arrive out of nowhere—use different cognitive processes than analytical problem-solving and more generalized thinking. An experiment in early-2022 looked into this possibility, researchers tasking subjects with solving word puzzles and then asking them whether they used an analytical, multi-step process to solve them, or if the answer came to them in a flash, fully-realized, seemingly out of nowhere.

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