Insight and the selection of ideas.
Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews October 1, 2023 Ruben Laukkonen, Margaret Webb, Carola Salvi et al.
Perhaps it is no accident that insight moments accompany some of humanity's most important discoveries in science, medicine, and art. Here we propose that feelings of insight play a central role in (heuristically) selecting an idea from the stream of consciousness by capturing attention and eliciting a sense of intuitive confidence permitting fast action under uncertainty. The mechanisms...