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Subject: Seminar - Conceptual Thinking for Restructuring and Insight (CMU)
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Date: Thu, 16-Apr-87 09:49:00 EST
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SPEAKER:  Dr. Stellan Ohlsson, LRDC, University of Pittsburgh
TITLE:    "A theory of conceptual thinking applied to the phenomena of
          restructuring and insight"
DATE:     Tuesday, April 21
TIME:     12:00 - 1:20 p.m.
PLACE:    Adamson Wing, Baker Hall

ABSTRACT: Current theories of problem solving focus on the nature and function
of problem solving strategies.  However, novel problems cannot, by definition,
be solved by applying a pre-existing strategy; rather, they are solved by
trying to understand the problem situation, a process to be called "conceptual
thinking".  According to studies by the Gestalt psychologists, conceptual
thinking exhibits the phenomena of restructuring and insight.  A first
approximation theory of restructuring and insight and some relevant data
will be discussed.