Insight

Frédéric Vallée-Tourangeau is Professor of Psychology at Kingston University, UK.

"The papers in this book reflect renewed attention to an old problem; how can we understand the nature of insight? What drives the occurrence of those "Aha!" moments of breakthroughs in problem solving? Since the Gestalt psychologists first addressed the issue, there have been numerous attempts to answer it. Here, we see thoughtful new approaches -- in theory development, in methodological approach, and in the scope of problems and situations examined. The book is replete with suggestions for future research and points the way toward new cognitive understandings of insight. --Ryan D. Tweney, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Bowling Green State University"

• IntroductionFrédéric Vallée-Tourangeau1 The dialectic between routine and creative cognitionStellan Ohlsson2 Whose insight is it anyway?Edward M. Bowden and Kristin Grunewald3 Magic tricks, sudden restructuring, and the Aha! experience: a new model of nonmonotonic problem solvingAmory H. Danek4 When does higher working memory capacity help or hinder insight problem solving?Marci S. DeCaro5 Working memory in insight problem solvingKen Gilhooly and Margaret E. Webb6 The relationship of insight problem solving to analytical thinking: evidence from psychometric studiesAdam Chuderski and Jan Jastrzębski7 Breaking past the surface: remote analogical transfer as creative insightTim George and Jennifer Wiley8 An ecological perspective on insight problem solvingSune Vork Steffensen and Frédéric Vallée-Tourangeau9 Insight, problem solving, and creativity: an integration of findingsRobert W. Weisberg