Creativity, insight and “eureka moments,” with John Kounios, PhD
Speaking of Psychology
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The Right Hemisphere of the Brain Processes Remote Associations
Nervous scientists correctly say that the normal brain is not cut in half, eh? Ah. The two hemispheres of the brain work together almost all time. So it can't be that the right hemisphere is the creative hemisphere and the left hemisphere is the analytical hemisphere. Well, that's going a bit far too because what a, with our study of a particular typesof these puzzles, is that the hih, moment, the brain activity at the moment of insight, is a burst of activity in the right temporal love. And you know, that's kind of suggestive, right? Ther the something going on.Ther the something going onto your mind when you're trying to think
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