@sciam.bsky.social has a new special edition entitled The Conscious Brain (www.scientificamerican.com/issue/specia...). It contains our feature article "The Brain Science of Elusive 'Aha moments'" from the March 2025 issue which you can read here: www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

The Fever Dream of Imminent ‘Superintelligence’ Is Finally Breaking www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/o...

The Conversation is rerunning their 2024 podcast episode about our research on the neuroscience of creative flow. #flowstate #flow youtu.be/C80jDmaPFNs?...

Our research on the #flowstate is reported in a new (paywalled) article by ‪@shaylalove.bsky.social‬ on NationalGeographic.com to accompany the "Limitless: Live Better Now" TV series with Chris Hemsworth on DisneyPlus and Hulu. www.nationalgeographic.com/health/artic...

The quest for #LLM based #AGI should take into consideration the fact that human natural general intelligence (#NGI) results from interaction of modules at various levels of abstraction and control. These maintain models of ground-truth reality and imagined worlds.

Honored to discuss creative insight and flow with brilliant creatives Marty Moss-Coane and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Jennifer Higdon on Marty's excellent The Connection program on @whyy.org (linked below). Includes a fantastic excerpt of Jennifer's Concerto 4-3. Enjoy. whyy.org/episodes/cra...

Cracking the Creativity Code. Catch me on The Connection with Marty Moss-Coane and Jennifer Higdon today (Friday) and Sunday at noon ET on WHYY radio, thereafter as a podcast. whyy.org/episodes/cra...

"Eureka! The brain science behind lightbulb moments" - Excellent coverage in Nature of research on the neuroscience of Aha moments, including our research on this phenomenon. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How old is your brain? youtu.be/6NodgGDiWB8?...

Brain-age estimation with a low-cost EEG-headset: effectiveness and implications for large-scale screening and brain optimization www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu...

Honored to have given a webinar on creativity for the Defense Acquisition University. (Link to video below.) Thanks to Garry Shields of the Department of Defense's Disruptive Technologies Lab for leading the discussion. media.dau.edu/media/Eureka...

Having fun speaking at the Kellogg Marketing Leadership Summit. Great meeting!

It was a pleasure to give the keynote address on creative insight and the brain at the fabulous Kellogg Marketing Leadership Summit at Northwestern University. Great event, inspiring people!

John Kounios, Yvette Kounios (March 2025). The wonder of insight. Scientific American, 20-27. www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-... Before I read this; I consciously used this by exploring my problem well before going to sleep... Often 'seeing' a solution in the morning. 'Aha-Erlebnis'

Was Talos, the Bronze Automaton Who Guarded the Island of Crete in Greek Myth, an Early Example of Artificial Intelligence? www.smithsonianmag.com/history/was-...

Quoted in article about AI and human intelligence in The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The Reverse Flynn Effect -- people are getting stupid. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/o...

Interesting thought piece about current cultural views of human intelligence, especially about and among the tech elite class. Needless to say, the so-called "tech bros" are not experts about the nature, measurement, and cultivation of human intelligence. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/a...

@WSJ says it's an "An incredible accomplishment." The paperback edition of our book, The Eureka Factor: Aha Moments, Creative Insight, and the Brain, is now available at a temporary reduced sale price on Amazon. www.amazon.com/Eureka-Facto...

@WSJ says it's an "An incredible accomplishment." The paperback edition of our book, The Eureka Factor: Aha Moments, Creative Insight, and the Brain, is now available at a temporary reduced sale price on Amazon. www.amazon.com/Eureka-Facto...

Thanks to @krysboydthink for interviewing me about Aha moments and the brain for the radio program/podcast Think from KERA and @NPR. Great discussion. www.npr.org/podcasts/478...

Yvette Kounios (my wife) and I wrote the cover story about the science of insight (i.e., the "Aha! moment") for the March issue of @sciam which is available now. #ahamoment #insight #creativity static.scientificamerican.com/dam/m/4da289...

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Audiobook of Outsmart Your Brain is just $3.99 at Chirp this week! www.chirpbooks.com/audiobooks/o...

I recently learned about the emerging evidence that shingles vaccine may confer protection against dementia in addition to shingles. The side effects of Shingrix were unpleasant for me (flu-like symptoms after each shot) but well worth avoiding shingles, even better if it reduces dementia risk.

Accelerated biological aging, measured using advanced biomarkers, is strongly linked to reduced brain volumes in key regions like gray matter, white matter, and the hippocampus #BiologicalAging #BrainHealth #Neuroscience #CognitiveDecline #MentalHealth

A.I. Isn’t Genius. We Are. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/o...

People who are good at reading have different brains theconversation.com/people-who-a... via @ConversationUK

We can now accurately and reliably estimate a person's brain age with a few minutes of resting-state EEG recorded with a low-cost EEG headset.

Exactly! My wife loves this and got me to watch it with her over the summer. Brilliant. Happy Thanksgiving.

A huge controversial question in Neuroscience: does hippocampal neurogenesis take place in the adult primate brain? Led by @talexe.bsky.social we systemically reviewed the relevant literature and found that the evidence is strong for primate AHN. See link to our article in Molecular Psychiatry.

Our 2004 PLoS Biology paper on the neural basis of insight (i.e., the "Aha moment") just passed 100,000 views. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

"An incredible accomplishment" - The Wall Street Journal: The Eureka Factor: Aha Moments, Creative Insight, and the Brain www.amazon.com/Eureka-Facto...

Our article on the neuroscience of creative flow in the October edition of @sciam www.scientificamerican.com/article/brai...

Brain-age estimation with a low-cost EEG-headset: effectiveness and implications for large-scale screening and brain optimization www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu...

How old is your brain? youtu.be/6NodgGDiWB8?...

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