To sleep, perchance to gain creative insight?

2004 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 191-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Stickgold ◽  
Matthew Walker
Keyword(s):  
Creative Insight

In Search of Somatic Precursors of Spontaneous Insight

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 97-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wangbing Shen ◽  
Yuan Yuan ◽  
Chaoying Tang ◽  
Chunhua Shi ◽  
Chang Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Direct Evidence ◽  
Electrodermal Activity ◽  
Cardiovascular Responses ◽  
Solution Time ◽  
Problem Solution ◽  
Insight Problem ◽  
Creative Insight ◽  
Insight Problem Solving ◽  
Analytic Problem

Abstract. A considerable number of behavioral and neuroscientific studies on insight problem solving have revealed behavioral and neural correlates of the dynamic insight process; however, somatic correlates, particularly somatic precursors of creative insight, remain undetermined. To characterize the somatic precursor of spontaneous insight, 22 healthy volunteers were recruited to solve the compound remote associate (CRA) task in which a problem can be solved by either an insight or an analytic strategy. The participants’ peripheral nervous activities, particularly electrodermal and cardiovascular responses, were continuously monitored and separately measured. The results revealed a greater skin conductance magnitude for insight trials than for non-insight trials in the 4-s time span prior to problem solutions and two marginally significant correlations between pre-solution heart rate variability (HRV) and the solution time of insight trials. Our findings provide the first direct evidence that spontaneous insight in problem solving is a somatically peculiar process that is distinct from the stepwise process of analytic problem solving and can be represented by a special somatic precursor, which is a stronger pre-solution electrodermal activity and a correlation between problem solution time and certain HRV indicators such as the root mean square successive difference (RMSSD).

scholarly journals Women's Contexts and Circumstances of Posttraumatic Growth After Sexual Victimization: A Systematic Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marika Guggisberg ◽  
Simone Bottino ◽  
Christopher M. Doran
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Posttraumatic Growth ◽  
Sexual Victimization ◽  
Healing Process ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
Physical Problems ◽  
Creative Insight ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Stage Analysis

Sexual violence is a concerning public health and criminal justice problem. Even though extensive literature has linked sexual victimization to a multitude of mental and physical problems, some victim/survivors recover and are able to lead lives without notable negative impacts. Little is known about women who experienced posttraumatic growth following sexual victimization. This review brings together knowledge accumulated in the academic literature in the past decade. It was informed by the PRISMA-P guidelines. Databases were searched using a combination of keywords to locate original peer-reviewed research articles published between January 2010 and October 2020 focusing on posttraumatic growth following sexual victimization. The initial search identified 6,187 articles with 265 articles being read in full, identifying 41 articles that were included in the analysis. The results suggest that recovery from sexual victimization is possible with the healing process being idiosyncratic. Victim/survivors employed various strategies resulting in higher degrees of functioning, which were termed growth. Following a synthesis of themes that emerged from the thematic analysis, a higher order abstraction, using creative insight through reflexivity, discussions among the research team and consistent interpretation and re-interpretation of the identified themes as a second stage analysis, resulted in the identification of two superordinate topics “relationship to self” and “relationship to others.” Findings indicated that women engaged in deliberate introspection to connect with themselves and utilized altruistic actions and activism in an attempt to prevent further sexual victimization Helping victim/survivors deal with the sexual violence facilitated growth as a collective. We concluded that helping others may be a therapeutic vehicle for PTG. Given research in this area remains in its infancy, further investigation is urgently needed.

The Standard of Scientific Pedagogical Expertise: a Creative Dimension

2021 ◽  
pp. 32-38
Author(s):  
Anatoliy Bychkov
Keyword(s):  
Technology In Education ◽  
Normative Documents ◽  
Pedagogical Expertise ◽  
Creative Insight ◽  
Analytical Review ◽  
Personal Qualities ◽  
Methodological Practice ◽  
Personal Portrait

Pedagogical expertise is considered as a system-forming scientific technology in education, which has a significant impact on the practice of teaching and the formation of a creative personality, actually becoming a method of scientific cognition in the context of improving the quality of education. It is advisable to design all programs of higher pedagogical education according to the deductive principle-from the general content component presented in the structure of technologies of pedagogical expertise of educational projects and programs, to private methodological practice-oriented recommendations proposed by experts as an indicative basis for teacher actions. The role of an expert and his personal qualities are of particular importance in the composition of pedagogical expertise. Based on the professional analysis of the expert's activity, his personal portrait is formed. In pedagogical expertise, the ratio of the objective (various normative documents regulating the activities of an expert) and the subjective is crucial, when the quality of the examination depends on the competence, experience of an expert specialist, his wisdom, intuition and creative insight. The analytical review of the mistakes of pedagogical experts should be used as the basis of the methodology for training teachers and expert specialists in the field of education.

Creative Insight: Asking the Right Questions

2018 ◽  
pp. 99-125
Author(s):  
Craig R. Hickman ◽  
Michael A. Silva
Keyword(s):  
Creative Insight ◽  
The Right

scholarly journals Performers’ discourses on listening to recordings

2020 ◽  
pp. 1321103X1989916
Author(s):  
Georgia Volioti ◽  
Aaron Williamon
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Positive Contribution ◽  
Metacognitive Skills ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Self Regulated Learning ◽  
Professional Careers ◽  
Creative Insight ◽  
Level Of Use ◽  
Porous Domain

How we listen to music and respond to its media and contexts has changed significantly since the invention of sound recording. Today’s musicians have countless opportunities to listen to others’ interpretations given the vast availability of past and contemporary repertories through the global reach of recordings. This study investigated the extent to which the growing archive of recordings provides a valuable resource for performers’ creativity. Although musical performance is a particularly porous domain for influence through either deliberate or spontaneous assimilation of expressive variation from other aural sources, little empirical research exists on influence in performance and specifically on the influence of recordings. Qualitative data were obtained via an online questionnaire to identify how and in what ways the use and influence of recordings have changed over the course of classical performers’ training or professional careers. Respondents’ ( N = 130) comments were analysed using a thematic inductive approach. The emerging themes reveal an overall increased level of use of recordings now relative to the past, a largely positive contribution of recordings in shaping musical development, including the role of recordings in self-regulated learning, a largely positive attitude to the influence of others’ interpretations, a means of developing expressions of self-identity in relation to others and a route to acquiring a more critical and discerning mode of listening to recordings. Implications for music education are discussed in terms of how listening to recordings, in both formal and informal learning contexts, could support advanced musicians’ learning through trial and error, enhance creative insight, strengthen self-efficacy, foster metacognitive skills and nurture individuality.

Hybrid Spool to Meet Deepwater Hybrid Riser Bundle Tower Critical Design Drivers

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tao Zhao ◽  
Dan Lee ◽  
Neil Willis ◽  
Hui Qiu ◽  
Marco Puliafito
Keyword(s):  
Fatigue Damage ◽  
Interaction Model ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Innovative Technology ◽  
Field Development ◽  
Creative Insight ◽  
Expansion Mechanism ◽  
Successful Case ◽  
Hybrid Concept

“Vertical type” spool configuration is commonly adopted as riser base spool for deepwater field development. With increasing water depths and risers subject to harsher environments, the excessive lower riser assembly motions and slugging induced fatigue damage have emerged as the governing design criteria for deepwater riser base spool design. Conventional vertical spool has inherent shortcomings to handle such design conditions. A new “hybrid” concept is therefore proposed, which extends beyond the “traditional” spool concept by integrating both vertical and horizontal spools into a 3D configuration. It inherits the vertical spool’s strength on handling large spatial expansion and utilise the pipe-soil interaction to dampen the potential resonance caused by slug flow. Several prototypes have been examined and the hybrid spool expansion-mechanism is discussed together with an optimisation procedure proposed. An advanced FEA technique using both Abaqus/Flexcom has been employed as part of the hybrid spool development, which consists of rigorous 3D dynamic analysis, bespoke non-linear soil interaction model and utilising the global riser dynamic behaviour. An in-house spool automation tool is developed to optimise the iterative analyses required to obtain a satisfactory hybrid spool configuration. This paper described a successful case study in recent deepwater hybrid riser bundle (multibore hybrid riser) tower development project, where the need to accommodate large lower riser assembly motion and slugging fatigue damage are the two main design drivers. This presentation provides a creative insight into this innovative technology.

scholarly journals Uncovering the Framework of Brain-Mind-Body in Creative Insight

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wangbing Shen ◽  
Yuan Yuan ◽  
Chang Liu ◽  
Jing Luo
Keyword(s):  
Creative Insight

An introduction to the scientific problem of the “mind wandering” phenomenon

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 284-297
Author(s):  
M.V. Ivanov ◽  
K.A. Bagrationi
Keyword(s):  
Mind Wandering ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
Psychological Characteristics ◽  
Cognitive Tasks ◽  
Scientific Problem ◽  
Laboratory Conditions ◽  
Interdisciplinary Perspective ◽  
Creative Insight ◽  
The Mind

The problem of the “wandering mind” phenomenon is considered in an interdisciplinary perspective. We provide evidence that the “wandering mind” is the cause of attention errors when performing cognitive tasks, both in laboratory conditions and in professional and daily activities. We show the role of “wandering mind” in the modeling of personal psychological future. According D. Kahneman’s conceptual views on the thinking nature, the “wandering mind” is a prerequisite of appearance of creative ways to solve ambiguous problems (“creative insight”) in the process of thinking. Based on the B.F. Lomov’s methodological conception, we reveal the need for considering the problem of “wandering mind” along with socio-psychological characteristics of a group (such as, for example, incorporativity), which includes subjects that are in the described condition.

Working Memory Benefits Creative Insight, Musical Improvisation, and Original Ideation Through Maintained Task-Focused Attention

2012 ◽  
Vol 38 (5) ◽  
pp. 656-669 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carsten K. W. De Dreu ◽  
Bernard A. Nijstad ◽  
Matthijs Baas ◽  
Inge Wolsink ◽  
Marieke Roskes
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Focused Attention ◽  
Creative Insight ◽  
Musical Improvisation
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