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Seeing into Insight

Seeing into Insight. Jonathan W. Schooler University of California Santa Barbara Parallels between Sight and Insight. Parallels between Sight and Insight. Core thesis There are striking parallels between the information processing characteristics of vision and insight.

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Seeing into Insight

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  1. Seeing into Insight Jonathan W. Schooler University of California Santa Barbara Parallels between Sight and Insight

  2. Parallels between Sight and Insight • Core thesis • There are striking parallels between the information processing characteristics of vision and insight.

  3. Suddenly apparent alternative coherent representations: Vision • Static • Figure Ground

  4. Suddenly apparent alternative coherent representations: Vision • Static • Figure Ground • Reversible Images

  5. Suddenly apparent alternative coherent representations: Vision • Dynamic • Rotating Necker cube

  6. Suddenly apparent alternative coherent representations: Vision • Dynamic • Rotating Necker cube • Spinning dancer illusion

  7. Suddenly apparent alternative coherent representations: Insight • Historical • Archimedes volume of a crown • Newton- Terrestrial vs. celestial motion • Relativity- Gravity and acceleration are identical • Everyday • Humor • Puns • Insight problems • Aha problems- Metcalfe demonstration of suddenness • Backward vs. forward reasoning • Lilly pond

  8. Recognizing additional dimensionsVision: The Magic Eye A particularly profound alternative coherent representation

  9. Recognizing additional dimensions Insight • Historical • Flatland • Relativity • String Theory • Insight • 6 matches problem

  10. Evidence for overlap in processing between representational shifts in vision and insight • Relationship between insight problem solving and recognizing out of focus picture • Schooler et al 1996

  11. Evidence for overlap in processing between representational shifts in vision and insight Relationship between insight problem solving and recognizing out of focus picture

  12. Entrenchment in vision Bruner and Potter effect

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