S5E69: Episode 69: John Kounios - “Aha!” The Science Of Creative Breakthrough
A professor of psychology at Drexel University in Philadelphia USA John Kounios is a world expert on understanding “aha moments”. Using fMRI scanners to map brain activity, John has shed new light on the way people are able to get new insight on challenges they’re facing, either through the classic “aha-moment” or through deliberate analysis.
His findings crystallise many of the themes that have emerged from earlier episodes of our Neurocreativity season including:
The importance of mind wandering
The role of psychological safety
The difference between exploratory and exploitative thinking…
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