Humor can improve a performance of creative problem solving; this phenomenon was repeatedly demonstrated in various studies. However, mechanisms underlying this phenomenon are still unclear. We analyze the possible mechanisms of how humor facilitates creative problem solving. The experiment demonstrates that preliminary humor production facilitates insight problem solving. There is no such an e...

Classical AND/OR goal, or task, decomposition techniques are generalized to deal with the problem of sensory-interactive goal-directed behavior in biological organisms. A neurophysiological model is described which demonstrates the capacity to l e a r n , to generalize, to compute multivariate mathematical functions, and to decompose input commands into sequences of output commands in a context...