Abstract:

Insight experience is an important approach to uncover the nature of insight. Previously, numerous studies focused on the processes of “how to abandon the old and ineffective thinking on problem-solving” as well as “how to form the new and effective thinking on problem-solving” from the perspective of cognition. However, insight experience itself was less discussed. Investigating insight experience has significant contribution to clarify the relationship among critical processes of creative insight and understand the nature of insight. Based on the dynamic perspective on “the transition from the old to the new” of creative insight, the present project explored the psychological characteristics and neural mechanisms of impasse-related and solution-related experience occurred on the problem-solving stage and the flash of problem solution stage, combining verbal and figure creative insight task. The present project could not only enrich and optimize the methodological system of insight problem solving, but also deepen the understanding on neural mechanism of creative insight from the transitional level of cognition to emotion.

Key words: insight experience, multi-dimensional scaling method, insight problem solving, aha experience, emotion regulation