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dtmc t1_ism5u6v wrote

Not my field, but can queue you into ways to optimize searching?

Insight learning is the "aha" moment we arrive at when the solution isn't nec. something we can deduce from our past experiences. It's a specific extreme of a novel problem, as that term can be used for things we can deduce solutions to.

Here're the three most-relevant studies that came up for a boolean search for fMRI + "insight learning" https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/44317146/Neural_correlates_of_the_Aha_experiences20160401-21193-1spnnjf-with-cover-page-v2.pdf?Expires=1665970463&Signature=Th~81e18UNi4YyTdBPH74al0VYAohwD9pw8rVs-z1lSXekdLayAcud6adesF-RumDXysyadlO8N92GsPWFZT4J2psbypDhlT43jl2QVRo~NNgO~yHJ44l5Bo1IIP-r1AUIWzv62fnJ7qHjC1PpboPr4DGj-92VuHZPZZuFoyd1upd6K6gtdrYqKM1FDp3fjRZlMmVS2Xdcea3a7lnMbEAoka7ENn7RE69hP-s99MtSbVOrrboBrhNFpn~QfgnapWzfzAgYhGjK~3VeN547Is83P6~jnsyBPoIXiwS1GFdjoHmIyLCmSoTpoBwS8rYS05Hwzi2j5a9dYy8HICyipsjQ__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/hbm.24073

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnsys.2016.00046/full

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thatkidanthony t1_isnx16i wrote

While I don’t have time to discuss it in depth like I would, the neurological process for learning anything is called “long term potentiation (LTP)” which is the process of your brain creating new receptors and synapses as it learns to solve novel problems.

With Additional practice in things that are not novel LTP still occurs which is how you get really good at something as you begin to learn additional intricacies of the problem.

However with truly novel tasks, there is also a dopamine / reward loop which occurs in a part of the brain for all novel things (I believe the striatum? Can’t remember where right now).

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Narrow-Payment-5300 t1_iso90yy wrote

Any books you can recommend about these topics?

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thatkidanthony t1_isogc5o wrote

I don’t have any recommendations I’m sorry.

I learned about it best through a “psychology of learning” course I took while doing my bachelors degree. But that was years ago so I don’t think I still have it.

Best of luck!

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