From DNA to complex cognition: How we learn, discover, and create the world

Kevin Dunbar has been engaged in studying how people engage in complex reasoning, social interactions, and real-world problem solving for over 20 years. He will discuss the key set of processes that he has discovered which explain the nature of human insight and how humans create new knowledge. His findings provide an understanding of the mechanisms that make complex thinking possible, and suggest new ways that creative thought and discovery can be facilitated across a broad range of contexts.