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 ...

While solving a math problem, the ChatGPT rival had an “aha moment,” labeling it as such. This was, in turn, an “aha moment” for the researchers. The DeepSeek team published a DeepSeek R1 ...

Such moments are not purely internal events, it turns out. Our eye movements and pupils can broadcast these "aha!" moments, making it possible to predict epiphanies even before they occur ...