aha! moment
and biological clock, 136
body memory and, 134–40, 150, 204
and brain (see brain)
and brainstorming, 196, 251 (see also creative collaboration)
and challenge, 31, 67, 116, 144, 240, 252
and children, 32, 60–66, 119, 248, 252
and daydreaming, 247
description of, 16, 17, 20, 109–10, 124–27, 139–40, 146, 147, 152, 157–58, 184, 196–97, 202, 220–21, 244, 255
expertise for, 30, 71, 73, 74, 97
immersionas stage of, 20, 75, 125–26, 145, 240
and impasse, 24, 34, 40, 92, 103, 106, 109, 121, 124, 125, 141, 149, 173, 202, 240
incubation, 127, 158, 176, 240, 241, 252, 253
neural signature for, 94, 103–105
perseverance and, 160, 224, 236, 245
and play, 145, 170–71, 176, 197, 240, 246, 248, 251
preparation for, 33, 43, 160, 224, 227, 236, 241, 242, 246–47, 251–52
prepotent candidates for, 33
researchon, 93–94, 103–105, 136, 143–44, 242–43
and role models, 248
as snaps(see snap)
and visualization, 246
Altman, Hannah (inventor), 248
Andreasen, Nancy (psychiatrist), 155–56, 158, 161, 242
anthropometry, 148
anticipation, 167
Arlow, Rick (inventor), 193–95
Art, Mind, and Brain (Gardner), 72
Asch, Solomon (psychologist), 217–19, 221
Asimov, Isaac (author), 19, 240
attention, 67, 118, 163, 165, 168, 169, 175, 241
bottom-up, 118
attitude (importance to aha!), 25, 30–31, 34, 44, 56
Baker, David (police chief), 152–55
Bell, Joseph (surgeon), 186–90, 241
Benedictus, Edouard (chemist), 131–32
benzene ring, 173
Berman, Josh (writer-producer), 52–54, 57
Berners-Lee, Tim (programmer), 83–87, 252
Besso, Michele (engineer), 196
Beyond Good and Evil (Nietzsche), 139
Bezos, Jeff (innovator), 18
Bhattacharya, Joydeep (researcher), 103–104
“Black or White” (Jackson), 172
bliss, 45–51, 56, 57, 113, 175
Bloom, Zach (inventor), 193–95
bodymind, 137
Bohr, Niels (physicist), 197–200. See also quantum physics
brain, 30, 43, 77–82, 87, 97, 103–105, 144, 158, 161, 165, 168, 203, 246, 252
anterior cingulated cortex, 105
anterior superior temporal gyri, 105
association cortex, 158, 174, 242–43
cerebral cortex, 158
coding, 68–69, 72, 90, 93, 132
feedback loops, 158
gating effect, 106
insula, 203
left hemisphere, 30, 106, 166, 170, 176
limbic system, 184
NDMA receptor, 88
neural pathways in, 97, 135, 204
neuroplasticity of, 31
nucleus accumbens, 78
occipital lobe, 158
posterior cingulated cortex, 105
right frontal cortex, 105
right hemisphere, 30, 106–107, 128, 170
slippage, 166
temporal lobe, 105–106, 158, 185, 242
ventral premotor cortex, 203
Branden, Nathaniel (psychologist), 44
Campbell, Joseph (folklorist), 45
Carhart, Tom (historian), 225–26, 232–33
Carson, Shelly (psychologist), 80–81, 246
Chabris, Christopher (psychologist), 71–72, 169
challenge, 31, 67, 116, 144, 240
Chamberlain, Joshua (military officer), 234–36
chunking. See memory
Cicero, 68
CitizenGroove, 245
Clasen, Pat (inventor), 146–48
cognition, grounded, 135
cognitive map, 132–33, 136, 140, 150, 160, 255
Coleridge, Samuel (poet), 156–57
collaboration. See creative collaboration; entanglement
comparative remote association, 105
consciousness (levels), 117–18, 125–27. See also attention; body memory; focus
Cooper, Martin (innovator), 99–102, 116, 117, 127, 184
courage, 74, 157, 191, 224, 227, 234
Crane, Hart (poet), 174
CREATES (Connect, Reason, Envision, Absorb, Transform, Evaluate, Stream), 80–81
creative collaboration, 207, 250
brainstorming, 211
Glessner Lee and Magrath, 207–11
creativity, 54, 140, 156, 161, 171, 183, 186, 206, 224, 242, 243, 246, 249–52
Crocker, Jim (engineer), 92
cross-fertilization, 175, 211, 246. See also creative collaboration; team building
Crowdy, David (mathematician), 174–75
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (television series), 40–42, 53, 54
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly (psychologist, author), 30–31, 113, 115–17, 119
Custer, George Armstrong (military officer), 225–34, 236, 242
Darwin, Charles (explorer), 160–61
data mining, 177–78, 192, 251, 255
da Vinci, Leonardo (inventor, artist), 120, 186
Davis, Natalie (historian), 49
Descartes, René (philosopher), 137
Dexter F. Baker Institute, 194, 249–51
Dillard, Annie (poet, author), 55–56
Dixie Cup, 148
DNA, 15–16, 107–12, 151–55. See also Jeffreys, Sir Alec; Mullis, Kary; PCR
Dodge, Wagner (firefighter), 28–30, 242
dreams, 27, 156, 172–73, 242, 247
Drop Dead Diva (television series), 54
Durstewitz, Daniel (neuroscientist), 93
dzdock, 119
Edison, Thomas (inventor), 240
EEG. See electroencephalograph
Einstein, Albert (physicist), 144–46, 195–97, 199, 219, 246
electroencephalograph (EEG), 103–104, 143
embedded advertising, 239
embodied cognition. See body memory
Embracing the Wide Sky (Tammet), 170
emotional intelligence, 55
encoding. See brain, coding; memory, coding cliques
Enquire (Berners-Lee), 83
Enquire within upon Everything (no author), 83
entanglement, 193–211, 224, 255
entelechy, 44, 49, 56, 113, 255
entrepreneurs, 181–82, 192, 243, 245, 248–51
epiphany. See aha! moment
Ericsson, Lars (researcher), 30
eureka. See aha! moment; Archimedes
Experience Sampling Method, 115
expertise (effect on aha! moment), 30, 71, 73, 74, 97, 181–82, 192, 243, 245, 249–51
Facebook, 26
Farnsworth, Philo (inventor), 174
Fermat's last theorem, 201–203
Feynman, Richard (physicist), 174
Finger Prints (Galton), 149
FIRST (For Inspirational Recognition of Science and Technology), 47
Flaherty, Alice (author), 183–85
fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging), 105, 185, 203, 242
focus, 66–67, 81, 117, 163, 165, 170, 175, 176. See also attention
Foer, Joshua (author), 68
Freud, Sigmund (psychoanalyst), 200–201
Futrelle, Jacques (author), 161–62
Gallese, Vittorio (researcher), 204
Galton, Francis (scientist), 148–49
Gardner, Howard (psychologist, author), 55, 72, 206–207
genius, 17, 20, 60, 66, 72–73, 185–86
Gettysburg, Battle of, 224–36. See also Chamberlain, Joshua; Custer, George Armstrong
Getzler-Linn, Lisa (administrator), 249–51
Glessner Lee, Francis (innovator), 207–11
Global Positioning System (GPS), 239, 252
Goodyear, Charles (inventor), 169–70
Gould, Gordon (physicist), 177, 191
Grossman, Marcel (mathematician), 197
Gruber, Howard (psychologist), 160–61
Guest, George (inventor), 75–77
guided imagery, 247
Gutenberg, Johannes (inventor), 239
gut feeling. See body memory
habits, 82, 119, 127, 161, 242, 247, 252. See also practice (for aha!)
Hadamard, Jacques (author), 145–46
Hannah's Cool World, 248
Hawking, Stephen (physicist), 27, 253
Heisenberg, Werner (physicist), 198. See also creative collaboration; quantum physics
Henry, Edward R. (scientist), 149–50
Herschel, William (scientist), 149
Holst, Victoria (psychologist), 90
Housen, Abigail (researcher), 22
HTML. See Hypertext Markup Language
HTTP. See Hypertext Transfer Protocol
hypertext, 85
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), 85
HypertextTransfer Protocol (HTTP), 85
and anticipation, 167
optical, 166
impasse, 12, 24, 34, 40, 92, 103, 106, 109, 121, 124, 125, 141, 149, 173, 202, 240
inattentionalblindness, 168–69
innovation, 31. See also snap
insight, 18, 27. See also aha! moment; snap
Integrated Product Development Program, 249–50
Jackson, Michael (singer, innovator), 171–72
James, P. D. (author), 45
Jeffreys, Sir Alec (molecular biologist), 151–55
Jung, Carl (psychiatrist), 134
Jung-Beeman, Mark (researcher), 104–105
Kagan, Jerome (psychologist), 27
Kamen, Dean (inventor), 45–47, 49, 57
Kandel, Eric (researcher), 134
Katz, Joel (educator, innovator), 21–25, 159–60, 205–206, 241–42
Keats, John (poet), 174
Keeler, George (inventor), 74–77
Kekulé, Freidrich (inventor), 156, 173
Khoshbin, Shahram (educator, innovator), 22
Kierkegaard, Søren (philosopher), 197
Kipling, Rudyard (author), 174
Knific, John (inventor), 243–45
Koehn, Nancy (psychologist), 181–82, 243
Koller, Carl (opthamologist), 200–201
Koontz, Dean (author), 114
Kounios, John (researcher), 104–105
“Kubla Khan” (Coleridge), 156–57
Laennec, René (physician), 26
laser, 177
lateral inhibition, 167
Lawyer, Justin (inventor), 146–48
Lee, Robert E. (military general), 224–25
Lehigh University, 75, 146, 193–94, 249
Level 26: Dark Origins (Zuiker), 43
Lincoln, Abraham, 51–52, 57, 226
Lippershay, Hans (inventor), 33
Loewi, Otto (neuroscientist), 173
Mack, Arien (psychologist), 168
Macknik, Stephen (psychologist), 164–66
Magrath, George Burgess, 207–209, 236
Main, Hart (entrepreneur), 32
ManCan, 32
Mangano, Joy (inventor), 116–17, 127
Maric, Mileva (mathematician), 197
Marrgraff, Jim (educator, innovator), 241
Marston, William (psychologist, inventor), 18
Martinez-Conde, Susana (psychologist), 164–66
Marx, Groucho (comedian), 32
McCartney, Paul (composer, musician), 174
in cab drivers, 135
coding cliques, 68–69, 72, 90, 93, 132
and dopamine, 78
flashbulb, 89
hippocampus, 135
and patterns, 88
sensory, 67
spatial, 134
template theory, 70–72, 98, 135
working (short-term), 67, 72, 82, 98, 135, 165
mental agility, 160, 161, 170, 173, 175, 176
mental flexibility, 34, 150, 157, 161, 175, 186, 233, 251, 255
mental map. See cognitive map
metaphor, 87, 140, 160, 183–85, 199–200
microwave, 239
Milgram, Stanley (psychologist), 215–24
Miller, Alexa (curator), 22
Miller, George (psychologist), 67–68
mimetic cells. See mirror neurons
MIND Institute (New Mexico), 155
Miracle Mop, 117
misinformationeffect, 91
mood, 243
Moonwalking with Einstein (Foer), 68
Moore, Hugh Everett (entrepreneur), 148, 156
morphing, 172
Mozart, Amadeus, 60, 61, 66, 73–74, 156
Mozart, Nannerl, 60
Mullis, Kary (researcher), 107–12, 114, 116, 117, 127. See also DNA; PCR
multiple intelligence, 55, 72. See also Gardner, Howard
mysticism, 199
Naghshineh, Sheila (educator), 22
Neisser, Ulric (magician), 168
Neuman, Eric (programmer, inventor), 244–45
neuromagic, 164–66. See also focus, perception
neuropeptides, 137
neurotransmitters, 77–78. See also brain; dopamine
Nietzsche, Friedrich (philosopher), 138–40
novelty, 78
“Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Deaths,” 209–11. See also Glessner Lee, Francis
observation, 21–25, 159–60, 180, 186–90, 205–206, 227, 246.
See also attention; Bell, Joseph;focus
“On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies” (Einstein), 196
Otis, Elisha (inventor), 33
paradoxical functional facilitation, 186
Pasteur, Louis, 25
Pauling, Linus, 15
PCR (polymerase chain reaction), 110–12. See also Mullis, Kary
Penn & Teller (magician team), 164–65, 167–68
perceptual shift, 17, 27–28, 31–33, 143, 150, 241, 252, 255
perceptual shortcuts, 168
Père Lachaise (cemetery), 239–40
Pert, Candace (neuroscientist), 137
PET (positron emission tomography), 158
Pezdek, Kathy (researcher), 90
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Dillard), 55–56
Pitchfork, Colin (murderer), 155
plateau moment (impasse), 127
play, 145, 170–71, 176, 197, 240, 246, 248, 251
Plotkin, Marc (musician), 243–245
Poincaré, Jules Henri (mathematician), 120–27, 156, 159, 169
descriptionof aha! moment, 124–27
Polgár, Judit (chess player), 63–66, 81, 248
Polgár, Sofia (chess player), 63–66, 81, 248
Polgár, Susan (chess player), 60–67, 81, 248
Polonyi, Michael (philosopher), 183
polygraph, 18
Post-It, 174
practice (for aha!), 34, 49, 67, 97, 242
printing press, 239
“Problem of Cell 13, The” (Futrelle), 162
prodigy, 72–74. See also genius; Mozart, Amadeus
psychoneuroimmunology, 137
quantum physics, 197–200. See also Bohr, Niels; Einstein, Albert; Heisenberg, Werner; Schrödinger, Erwin
Quinn, Moriah (educator), 159
Randi, James (magician), 164
random episodic silent thinking, 158, 242
Reaumur, René-Antoine Ferchault, de (chemist), 161
relativity, theory of, 197
Rhames, Ving (actor), 50–51, 57
Rhetoric (Aristotle), 183
risk analysis, 234
Rizzolattie, Giacomo (researcher), 203–204
Robbins, Apollo (magician), 164
Rock, Irvin (psychologist), 168
rolestorming, 203
Rowling, J. K. (author), 175
rTMS (repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation), 185–86
saccades (in perception), 164
Salk, Jonas (inventor), 173
Sankuhler, Simone (researcher), 103
savants, 185–86. See also genius; prodigy
scan, 20, 25, 34, 37–129, 252, 255
Schrödinger, Erwin (physicist), 198. See also quantum physics
Seamans, Jeremy (neuroscientist), 93
Segway PT, 46
serendipity, 127, 193, 211, 240
Sharot, Talli (researcher), 80
Sheth, Bhavin (researcher), 103–104
Simon, Herbert A. (cognitive scientist), 206–207
Simons, Daniel (psychologist), 70–71, 169
6-3-5 Brainwriting, 206
SMART (Seldinger-Modified Airway Rescue Tracheotomy) device, 193–95
smart mice. See “Doogie” mice
“Smooth Criminal” (Jackson), 172
snap, 18, 25–26, 28, 34, 143–44, 255
and brain (see aha! moment, research on)
conditions for, 163–64, 252, 253
and crime solving, 42, 149–50, 153–55, 191, 209–11
in dreams, 27, 156, 172–73, 242, 247
and invention, 20, 109–10, 132, 147, 169, 177, 180–81, 193–95, 220–21, 239, 241
and solutions, 27, 39–40, 126–27, 131–32, 164, 173, 182, 202, 244
and strategy, 232–34, 236, 251
and vision, 86, 126–27, 145, 155, 246
and writing, 139, 174–75, 184, 225, 247
See also aha! moment
Snyder, Allan (researcher), 185–86
Social Network (film), 26
Soraci, Sal (psychologist), 143
spatial map. See grid cells; cognitive map
spatial mislocation, 163
Spencer, Percy (inventor), 239
Staples, 243
Starbucks, 18
Star Trek (television series), 101
Stemberg, Tom (entrepreneur), 243
stethoscope, 26
Stuart, J. E. B. (military officer), 226, 231–34
subconscious, 140, 241–42, 246, 247, 253
Sullenberger, Chesley (pilot, author), 94–98, 242
Swartz, Jerome (neuroscientist), 102–103
synchronicity, 51–52, 57, 86, 155
synetics, 184
Tacit Dimension, The (Polanyi), 183
tacit knowledge, 183
Talmey, Max (medical student), 197
Tammet, Daniel (linguist), 170–71
Tangle (Berners-Lee), 84
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich (composer), 157–58, 175
tDCS (transcranial direct current stimulation), 186
team building, 205–206, 250, 251
telescope, 33
Thematic Apperception Test, 33
Thinking Machine, The (Futrelle), 161–62
Thorndike, Mary (educator), 205–206
“Thriller” (Jackson), 171, 172
Thus Spake Zarathustra (Nietzsche), 139
Tolman, E. C. (researcher), 132
“Training the Eye” (seminar), 22–24
Tsien, Joe (researcher), 88
unconscious, 125–27, 140, 158. See also subconscious
Universal Resource Locator (URL), 85
URL. See Universal Resource Locator
Vidocq, François Eugène (detective), 178–81, 191
vigilance, 56, 118, 171, 191, 211, 232, 243, 246, 252, 256
visual persistence, 163
Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS), 22–25
Vitruvius, 18
VTS. See Visual Thinking Strategies
waterfall illusion, 166
Watson, James (scientist), 15–16, 107, 247
Watt, James (engineer, inventor), 182–84, 191
Wiles, Andrew (mathematician), 201–203, 207
will to power (Nietzsche), 139
Wilson, Vicky (researcher), 150
working memory. See memory
World Wide Web (WWW), 86
Wright, Orville (inventor), 162–63
Wright, Wilbur (inventor), 162–63
Yenawine, Philip (educator), 22
“Yesterday” (McCartney), 174
Your Creative Brain (Carson), 80
Zaharakis, Dino (inventor), 119
Zuckerberg, Mark (programmer), 26