Editor’s Note: Published in 1956, this article proved so popular that it served as the inspiration for Martin Gardner’s legendary Scientific ... A similar pattern of colors or geometrical ...

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John Kounios is a professor of psychological and brain sciences at Drexel University. He is co-author of The Eureka Factor: Aha Moments, Creative Insight, and the Brain (Random House, 2015) and ...

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