Sudden insight is associated with shutting out visual inputs

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1814-1819

  Salvi, Carola ^a,b   Bricolo, Emanuela ^a   Franconeri, Steven L ^b   Kounios, John ^c   Beeman, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive neuroscience; Creativity; Eye movements; Problem solving; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTENTION; CREATIVITY; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; VISION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CREATIVITY; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84947029842     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-015-0845-0     Document Type: Article

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