Insight in the laboratory and in real life: unsolved mysteries
St Petersburg University and its Representative Office in Barcelona invite you to an online lecture "Insight in the laboratory and in real life: unsolved mysteries". It will be delivered by Nadezhda Moroshkina, Candidate of Psychology and Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Cognitive Studies, St Petersburg University.
Insight is one of the most well-known phenomena of thinking that has made scholars curious for more than a century. How far have we come in understanding this phenomenon, and can we call insight a special mechanism other than analytical thinking?
During our meeting, we will talk about how new ideas emerge in the mind of a creator, and why scholars, inventors and other creative professionals value their insights so much. And most importantly, how do they have confidence in the correctness of their hunch when it may take days, months or even years to verify it? This lecture will cover the main approaches to explaining insight in contemporary cognitive science. We will also discuss how insight is investigated in the laboratory and what questions still remain unanswered.
Speaker
Nadezhda Moroshkina is a regular participant in international and Russian research conferences, schools and symposia, including: the Congress of the Russian Psychological Society; the International Conference on Cognitive Science; and the St Petersburg University Winter Psychological School to name just a few. She is a member of the Programme Committee of the conference "Cognitive Science in Moscow: New Research" (2017, 2019, 2021), and a member of the editorial board of the journal "Psychological Studies" and the "Russian Journal of Cognitive Science". She is the author of more than one hundred scholarly publications on cognitive psychology and research methods.
From 2006 to 2018, she taught at the Faculty of Psychology and at the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences at St Petersburg University. Since 2018, she has been a senior research associate at the Institute for Cognitive Studies. Her research interests include: experimental studies of creative thinking; implicit learning and memory; metacognitions; and cognitive illusions. She is the author of courses in cognitive and experimental psychology and co-author of the online course "Psychology of Consciousness" on the OpenEdu and Coursera platforms.
The meeting will be held online in Russian with simultaneous interpreting into Spanish.