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finding:fmri-showed-increased-right-hemisphere-anterior-superior-temporal-gyrus-activity-for-insight-solutions-with-eeg-showing-a-gamma-band-burst-in-the-same-region-beginning-0-3s-prior-to-insight-jung-beeman-et-al-2004

fMRI showed increased right hemisphere anterior superior temporal gyrus activity for insight solutions, with EEG showing a gamma-band burst in the same region beginning 0.3s prior to insight (Jung-Beeman et al., 2004).

Neural correlate of insight used to support prediction about early neural activity following structure learning

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Active Inference, Curiosity and Insight

(2017) · Karl Friston · Marco Lin · Chris Frith · Giovanni Pezzulo +2

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We hypothesize that insight produces a profound reduction in the latency of evoked neuronal responses when subjects know the meaning of cues (have learned a rule), equivalently an increase in ERP amplitude to initial cues in a sequence.
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Empirically testable neural prediction of the active inference model of insight

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