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From Intuition to Insight

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Author

Editor

  • Sven Sandström

Summary, in English

The article discusses the role of intuition for insight. Creativity provides heuristic solutions to problems that are intractable if approached in standard, algorithmic ways. Intuition is claimed to occur during the incubation phase (Wallas 1926) and to crucially depend on embodied memory and unconscious processing of memories, such as reconstruction and recreation. Two suggestions as to how memory contributes to intuition, and by which processes are analysed and compared: Barsalou & Prinz’ (1997) and Langley & Jones’ (1988).

Publishing year

2000

Language

English

Pages

39-52

Publication/Series

Konferenser / Kungl. Vitterhets historie och antikvitets akademien

Volume

48

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

Almqvist & Wiksell

Topic

  • Philosophy
  • Psychology (excluding Applied Psychology)

Keywords

  • Intuition
  • Insight
  • Creativity
  • Memory
  • Recall
  • Mental imagery
  • Embodied cognition
  • Wallas
  • Barsalou

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0348-1433
  • ISBN: 91-7402-303-9