Introduction
Frédéric Vallée-Tourangeau
1 The dialectic between routine and creative cognition
Stellan Ohlsson
2 Whose insight is it anyway?
Edward M. Bowden and Kristin Grunewald
3 Magic tricks, sudden restructuring, and the Aha! experience: a new model of nonmonotonic problem solving
Amory H. Danek
4 When does higher working memory capacity help or hinder insight problem solving?
Marci S. DeCaro
5 Working memory in insight problem solving
Ken Gilhooly and Margaret E. Webb
6 The relationship of insight problem solving to analytical thinking: evidence from psychometric studies
Adam Chuderski and Jan Jastrzębski
7 Breaking past the surface: remote analogical transfer as creative insight
Tim George and Jennifer Wiley
8 An ecological perspective on insight problem solving
Sune Vork Steffensen and Frédéric Vallée-Tourangeau
9 Insight, problem solving, and creativity: an integration of findings
Robert W. Weisberg
Biography
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"
