Inspiration is a motivational state that compels individuals to bring ideas into fruition. Creators have long argued that inspiration is important to the creative process, but until recently, scientists have not investigated this claim. In this article, we review challenges to the study of creative inspiration, as well as solutions to these challenges afforded by theoretical and empirical work ...

In a group of 1066 heroin addicts, who were seeking treatment for opioid agonist treatment, we looked for differences in historical, demographic, and clinical characteristics, between patients with different levels of awareness of illness (insight). The results showed that, in the cohort studied, a majority of subjects lacked insight into their heroin-use behavior. Compared with the impaired-in...

Therapeutic interventions in chronic mental illness face the important challenge to pursuit the quality of life (QOL) of patients. Insight into chronic mental illness, though a prerequisite for treatment adherence and a positive therapeutic outcome, has shown adverse associations with subjective QOL. This study aims to explore the contribution of psychopathological symptoms on the ambiguous rol...

The goal of the current study was to examine the relationships between insight and both cognitive function and depression in schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder, and to determine if there were similar relationships across diagnostic categories. We examined discrepancies between self and informant reports of function on the Specific levels of function scale as a metric of insight for inte...

The primary goal of the present study was to explore the neuropsychological basis of insight into illness in anorexia nervosa by evaluating its differential and joint links with cognitive vs. metacognitive performance. Participants in the study were 25 women with anorexia nervosa (AN) and 25 healthy comparisons (HC). All participants completed a computerized version of the Wisconsin Card Sortin...

Psychologists have long hypothesized that daydreaming (i.e., engaging in stimulus-independent, task-unrelated thoughts and images) may facilitate creativity, but evidence for this hypothesis has been mixed. We propose that, to fully understand the relationship between daydreaming and creativity, it is essential to distinguish between different creative processes as well as between alternative s...

Although the insight phenomenon has attracted great attention from psychologists, it is still largely unknown whether its variation in well-functioning human adults has a genetic basis. Several lines of evidence suggest that genes involved in dopamine (DA) transmission might be potential candidates. The present study explored for the first time the association of dopamine D2 receptor gene (DRD2...

Abstract The selection of an analogical source is a critical step in the design-by-analogy process. Previous researchers have explored reasons and preferences individual designers or design teams selecting sources. Non-designers, who instead more knowledge other fields, may offer new possibilities for retrieving novel This study focuses on differences sources between collaborative composed nond...

This paper shows that tangible user interfaces support cognitive actions that are associated with creative design. The evidence for this is a case study of designers using a tangible user interface environment for manipulating 3D models on a digital design workbench. Focussing on how the new interface technology changes designers’ spatial cognition, we compare designers using tangible user inte...

In this paper, we use multiwavelet transforms to perform texture classification on twelve Brodatz textures. To increase the correct classification rate, feature selection is considered. Here we use the coevolutionary algorithm rather than the genetic algorithm (GA) which is widely used in many researches to accomplish the training phase of feature selection. In the classification phase, the mea...