Rebus puzzles as insight problems

Validation of Italian rebus puzzles and compound remote associate problems.

Rebus puzzles and compound remote associate problems have been successfully used to study problem solving. These problems are physically compact, often can be solved within short time limits, and have unambiguous solutions, and English versions have been normed for solving rates and levels of difficulty. Many studies on problem solving with sudden insight have taken advantage of these features ...

Moving picture puzzles: training urban perception in the Weimar ‘rebus films’

Looking over the history of cinema from the vantage point of the early twenty-first century, recent research has increasingly highlighted the similarities between the sense of possibility characterizing cinema’s early decades and our own digital era, in which the proliferation of interactive media and variable screen formats has loosened the once dominant paradigm of the passive spectator immob...

Est modus in rebus.

The Effects of Number and Level of Restructuring in Insight Problem Solving

Insight problem solving is characterized by restructuring. We hypothesized that the difficulty of rebus puzzles could be manipulated by systematically varying the restructurings required to solve them. An experiment using rebus puzzles varied the number of restructurings (one or two) required to solve a problem and the level at which the restructuring took place (sub-word level, word level, and...

Sudden Infant Death, Patterns, Puzzles and Problems

Positron emission tomography, better known as PET scanning, is the most powerful new technology available for assessing the biological activity of the living brain. Its development represents a remarkable cooperative effort among nuclear physics, computer technology, pharmacology, and clinical neuroscience. The use of such diverse technologies has made the exciting new PET technology and its co...