Gestalt’s Perspective on Insight: A Recap Based on Recent Behavioral and Neuroscientific Evidence
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. The Role of Perceptual Experience in Problem-Solving Cognition: Was the Parallelism between Bistable Figures and Insight Problem-Solving Warranted?
3. The Holistic Approach: What Has Recent Research Discovered about the Idea That Solutions to Problems Sometimes Come to Mind in an Off-On Manner?
Using Koffka’s (1935, p. 176) words: “The whole is something else than the sum of its parts, because summing is a meaningless procedure, whereas the whole-part relationship is meaningful”. Similarly, insight problem-solving is processed in a discrete off–on manner, and when solutions to problems emerge, they do so as a “whole”, and the solver cannot retroactively report the reasoning process that led him or her to the solution.
4. The Gestalt Psychologists Assume That the Solution to Problems Comes “With Sudden Clarity.” Can We See in This Statement a Proto-Assumption That Insightful Solutions Might Be Characterized by a Perception of Higher Accuracy?
5. Conclusions and Future Directions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Vitello M, Salvi C. Gestalt’s Perspective on Insight: A Recap Based on Recent Behavioral and Neuroscientific Evidence. Journal of Intelligence. 2023; 11(12):224. https://doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence11120224
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