It is a complex process how we think, understand, and solve problems day by day, although it seems everything happens in a blink of an eye. We figure out what we do everyday and there are ways we choose to do them differently than what we are accustomed to do. New ideas surface and more often they are achieved by trial and error.
These sudden insights intrigued scientists Dr. Jeremy K. Seamans from the University of British Columbia and Dr. Daniel Durstewitz from the Central Institute of Mental Health as to its origin in the brain, where and how do they start – the so called neural dynamics from familiarity to novelty. Familiarity suggests what we commonly do; novelty applies to new strategies in doing things.
Neurons located in the medial frontal cortex were found to be responsible for the “a-ha moments” in the brain. They form networks corresponding to familiar and novel rules. They abruptly set new patterns which translate to a shift in behavior.
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