Columbia scientists have identified the brain’s ‘aha!’ moment — that flash in time when you suddenly become aware of information, such as knowing the answer to a difficult question.
New research by Michael Shadlen of Columbia University’s Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute pinpoints the a-ha moment when information enters the human consciousness.
So far, no one in the scientific community — including David Kipping and Alex Teachey, astronomers at Columbia University — has been able to produce an unambiguous detection of an exomoon. But it’s not for lack of trying.