13 Mar, 2014
Chi & Snyder (2011), found an innovative way to increase insight. They used a well-known experimental paradigm involving ''matchstick arithmetic'' Participants were asked to correct a false arithmetic statement, presented in Roman numerals constructed from matchsticks, by moving one stick from one position to another position without adding or removing a stick. Part of the reason that insightfulness is boosted is because the left temporal lobe is inhibited, as shown