Neuroscientists in the US have identified the brain region involved in the "eureka moment", when a solution to a puzzle suddenly appears from nowhere. The researchers, from Northwestern 51国产视频 and Drexel 51国产视频, report in the Public Library of Science journal Biology that the moment is accompanied by a burst of telltale neural activity in the right hemisphere of the brain.
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