John Kounios

Biographic Data

ID6255766
NAMEJohn Kounios
GIVEN NAMESJohn
FAMILY NAMEKounios
SIGNATUREKOUNIOS J
AFFILIATIONSDrexel University
ORCID0000-0002-0101-6202
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2004
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX1

  • Uncovering the Interplay of Oscillatory Processes During Creative Problem Solving

    Yuhua Yu, Yongtaek Oh et al.ARTICLECreativity Research Journal2023

    To solve a new problem, people spontaneously engage multiple cognitive processes. Previous work has identified a diverse set of oscillatory components critical at different stages of creative problem solving. In this project, we use hidden state modeling to untangle the roles of oscillation processes over time as people solve puzzles. Building on earlier work, we further developed analytical methods, such as incorporating source separating techni…

  • Conceptual Change Induced by Analogical Reasoning Sparks Aha Moments

    Christine Chesebrough, Evangelia G Chrysikou et al.ARTICLECreativity Research Journal2023

    An underexplored aspect of the relationship between analogical reasoning and creativity is its phenomenology; in particular, the notion that analogical reasoning is related to insight and its associated “aha!” experience. However, the relationship between these phenomena has never been directly investigated. We adapted a set of verbal analogy stimuli for use as an insight task. Across the two experiments, participants reported stronger aha moment…

  • An examination of frontal asymmetry in relation to eating in the absence of hunger and loss-of-control eating

    Open AccessJoanna Y Chen, Yongtaek Oh et al.ARTICLEAppetite2023References: 32

  • Insight

    Open AccessBrian Erickson, John KouniosOTHEREmerging Trends in the Social and…2015

    Insight, also known as the Aha phenomenon, is the sudden awareness of the solution to a problem. In contrast, analysis is problem solving by consciously and deliberately manipulating the elements of a problem. The Gestalt psychologists began studying insight about a century ago. On the basis of their research with complex “insight problems,” they characterized insight as a reinterpretation or restructuring of one's representation of a stimulus or…

  • The Cognitive Neuroscience of Insight

    John Kounios, Mark BeemanARTICLEAnnual Review of Psychology2014

    Insight occurs when a person suddenly reinterprets a stimulus, situation, or event to produce a nonobvious, nondominant interpretation. This can take the form of a solution to a problem (an "aha moment"), comprehension of a joke or metaphor, or recognition of an ambiguous percept. Insight research began a century ago, but neuroimaging and electrophysiological techniques have been applied to its study only during the past decade. Recent work has r…

  • Asymmetric prefrontal cortex activation in relation to markers of overeating in obese humans

    Open AccessChristopher N Ochner, Deborah Green et al.ARTICLEAppetite2009Cited by: 2References: 40

  • Binge eating, appetitive responsiveness, and disinhibition

    Open AccessC O Ochner, Michael R Lowe et al.ARTICLEAppetite2007

  • New approaches to demystifying insight

    Open AccessEdward M Bowden, E BOWDEN et al.ARTICLETrends in Cognitive Sciences2005

  • Neural Activity When People Solve Verbal Problems with Insight

    Open AccessMark Beeman, Mark Jung-Beeman et al.ARTICLEPLOS Biology2004

    People sometimes solve problems with a unique process called insight, accompanied by an "Aha!" experience. It has long been unclear whether different cognitive and neural processes lead to insight versus noninsight solutions, or if solutions differ only in subsequent subjective feeling. Recent behavioral studies indicate distinct patterns of performance and suggest differential hemispheric involvement for insight and noninsight solutions. Subject…