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View article: The neural basis of the insight memory advantage
The neural basis of the insight memory advantage Open
Creative problem solving and memory are inherently intertwined: memory accesses existing knowledge while creativity enhances it. Recent studies show that insights often accompanying creative solutions enhance long-term memory. This insight…
View article: Surprise!—Clarifying the link between insight and prediction error
Surprise!—Clarifying the link between insight and prediction error Open
The AHA experience, a moment of deep understanding during insightful problem-solving involving feelings of certainty, pleasure, and surprise, has captivated psychologists for more than a century. Recently, a new theoretical framework has p…
View article: The neural basis of the insight memory advantage.
The neural basis of the insight memory advantage. Open
Creative problem solving and memory are inherently intertwined; memory accesses existing knowledge while creativity enhances it. Recent studies show that insights often accompanying creative solutions enhance long-term memory. This Insight…
View article: Videogame training increases clinical well-being, attention and hippocampal-prefrontal functional connectivity in patients with schizophrenia
Videogame training increases clinical well-being, attention and hippocampal-prefrontal functional connectivity in patients with schizophrenia Open
Recent research shows that videogame training enhances neuronal plasticity and cognitive improvements in healthy individuals. As patients with schizophrenia exhibit reduced neuronal plasticity linked to cognitive deficits and symptoms, we …
View article: Solving problems with an Aha! increases risk preference
Solving problems with an Aha! increases risk preference Open
Solving problems with insight culminates in an "Aha! moment": a feeling of confidence and pleasure. In daily life, insights are often followed by important decisions, such as deciding what to do with a new idea. Here, we investigated wheth…
View article: Surprise! – Clarifying the link between insight and prediction error
Surprise! – Clarifying the link between insight and prediction error Open
The AHA experience, a moment of deep understanding during insightful problem solving involving feelings of certainty, pleasure and surprise, has captivated psychologists for over a century. Recently, a new theoretical framework has propose…
View article: Neural Mechanisms of Creative Problem Solving - From Representational Change to Memory Formation
Neural Mechanisms of Creative Problem Solving - From Representational Change to Memory Formation Open
Despite the need for innovative solutions to contemporary challenges, the neural mechanisms driving creative problem-solving, including representational change and its relation to memory, still remain largely unknown. We focused on the pow…
View article: Videogame training increases clinical well-being, attention and hippocampal-prefrontal functional connectivity in schizophrenia
Videogame training increases clinical well-being, attention and hippocampal-prefrontal functional connectivity in schizophrenia Open
Recent research revealed that videogame training boosts neuronal plasticity emerging in a range of cognitive improvements accompanied by structural and functional brain changes in healthy subjects. A reduction of neuronal plasticity has be…
View article: Making a good career choice: A decision-analytical intervention to enhance high school students’ proactive decision-making and career choice self-efficacy
Making a good career choice: A decision-analytical intervention to enhance high school students’ proactive decision-making and career choice self-efficacy Open
At the end of high school, teenagers have to deal with their first life-changing decisions when deciding what to do after having graduated from school. For these decisions, adolescents need to be able to make good decisions. However, most …
View article: Solving problems with an Aha! increases risk preference
Solving problems with an Aha! increases risk preference Open
Solving problems with insight culminates in an “Aha! moment”: a feeling of confidence and pleasure. In daily life, insights are often followed by important decisions, such as deciding what to do with a new idea. Here, we investigated wheth…
View article: Cognitive enhancement: Effects of methylphenidate, modafinil, and caffeine on latent memory and resting state functional connectivity in healthy adults
Cognitive enhancement: Effects of methylphenidate, modafinil, and caffeine on latent memory and resting state functional connectivity in healthy adults Open
Stimulants like methylphenidate, modafinil, and caffeine have repeatedly shown to enhance cognitive processes such as attention and memory. However, brain‐functional mechanisms underlying such cognitive enhancing effects of stimulants are …
View article: A cognitive neuroscience perspective on insight as a memory process: encoding the solution
A cognitive neuroscience perspective on insight as a memory process: encoding the solution Open
This is one of two chapters on "A cognitive neuroscience perspective on insight as a memory process" to be published in the "Routledge International Handbook of Creative Cognition" by L. J. Ball & F. Valleé-Tourangeau (Eds.). While the…
View article: A cognitive neuroscience perspective on insight as a memory process: Searching for the solution.
A cognitive neuroscience perspective on insight as a memory process: Searching for the solution. Open
This is one of two chapters on "A cognitive neuroscience perspective on insight as a memory process" to be published in the "Routledge International Handbook of Creative Cognition" by L. J. Ball & F. Valleé-Tourangeau (Eds.). In this c…
View article: Cognitive enhancement: Effects of methylphenidate, modafinil and caffeine on latent memory and resting state functional connectivity in healthy adults
Cognitive enhancement: Effects of methylphenidate, modafinil and caffeine on latent memory and resting state functional connectivity in healthy adults Open
Stimulants like methylphenidate, modafinil and caffeine have repeatedly shown to enhance cognitive processes such as attention and memory. However, brain-functional mechanisms underlying such cognitive enhancing effects of stimulants are s…
View article: Between automatic and control processes: How relationships between problem elements interact to facilitate or impede insight
Between automatic and control processes: How relationships between problem elements interact to facilitate or impede insight Open
Solving a problem requires relating the pieces of information available to each other and to the solution. We investigated how the strength of these relationships determines the likelihood of solving insight tasks based on remote associate…
View article: Spend time outdoors for your brain – an in-depth longitudinal MRI study
Spend time outdoors for your brain – an in-depth longitudinal MRI study Open
Results indicate remarkable and potentially behaviorally relevant plasticity of cerebral structure within a short time frame driven by the daily time spent outdoors. This is compatible with anecdotal evidence of the health and mood-promoti…
View article: Assessing creativity independently of language: A Language Independent Remote Associate Task (LI-RAT)
Assessing creativity independently of language: A Language Independent Remote Associate Task (LI-RAT) Open
Most creativity measures are either complex or language-dependent, hindering cross-cultural creativity assessment. We have therefore developed and tested a simple, language-independent insight task based on pictures in the style of the wid…
View article: Assessing creativity independently of language: A normed Language Independent Remote Associate Task (LI-RAT)
Assessing creativity independently of language: A normed Language Independent Remote Associate Task (LI-RAT) Open
Most creativity measures are either complex or language-dependent, hindering cross-cultural creativity assessment. We have therefore developed and tested a simple, language-independent insight task based on pictures in the style of the wid…
View article: Verbal insight revisited – Dissociable neurocognitive processes underlying solutions accompanied by an AHA! experience with and without prior restructuring
Verbal insight revisited – Dissociable neurocognitive processes underlying solutions accompanied by an AHA! experience with and without prior restructuring Open
In this article, we investigate insight problem solving by exploring the subjective AHA! experience as a function of restructuring of a problem. It has long been assumed that the AHA! experience is the direct consequence of restructuring. …
View article: Are the hippocampus and its network necessary for creativity?
Are the hippocampus and its network necessary for creativity? Open
If neuroscientists who are not memory researchers were asked, “What does the hippocampus do?” they might answer that the hippocampus (HC) is important for memory, and perhaps they might specify that HC is critical for episodic memory (reme…
View article: Verbal insight revisited: fMRI evidence for early processing in bilateral insulae for solutions with AHA! experience shortly after trial onset
Verbal insight revisited: fMRI evidence for early processing in bilateral insulae for solutions with AHA! experience shortly after trial onset Open
In insight problem solving solutions with AHA! experience have been assumed to be the consequence of restructuring of a problem which usually takes place shortly before the solution. However, evidence from priming studies suggests that sol…
View article: Identifying predictors of within-person variance in MRI-based brain volume estimates
Identifying predictors of within-person variance in MRI-based brain volume estimates Open
Adequate reliability of measurement is a precondition for investigating individual differences and age-related changes in brain structure. One approach to improve reliability is to identify and control for variables that are predictive of …