顿悟体验的心理与神经机制

The psychological and neural mechanisms of insight experience

顿悟体验研究是揭示顿悟本质的重要途径。先前研究从认知角度对顿悟问题解决中的"旧而无效解题思路如何抛弃"与"新而有效解题思路如何形成"过程进行了颇多探讨,但较少探讨顿悟体验本身。顿悟体验研究对理清创造性顿悟中关键过程间的关系及阐明顿悟的科学规律均有重要的意义。基于创造性顿悟的"新旧交替"的动态视角,本项目拟借助多元方法来对言语类和视图类问题解决过程中尝试解题阶段和答案闪现阶段的顿悟体验的心理实质与脑机制进行研究。本项目成果不仅可以丰富和优化顿悟问题研究的方法学体系,而且能从知情转化层面深化对创造性顿悟脑机制的认识。

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.