Edward Bowden
- Associate Professor - Psychology
- Psychology, Professional Counseling, and Neuroscience Department
- Ph.D., University of Oregon, 1987
- PHONE: (262) 595-2549
- EMAIL: bowden@uwp.edu

AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Problem solving
- Creativity
- Reasoning & decision making
- Research design
Teaching, Research/Creative & Consulting Interests
Teaching Interests
Cognition, Learning and Memory, Problem solving, Creativity, Reasoning
Research Interests
Problem Solving, Creativity & Insight, Reasoning, Memory
Consulting Interests
Publications
Selected Publications
2019: The relation between state and trait risk taking and problem solving., Thinking and Reasoning
2019: Remote Associates, The Encyclopedia of Creativity
2018: Whose Insight is it Anyway?, Current Issues in Thinking and Reasoning. Routledge (28-50 pp.)
2016: Insight solutions are correct more often than analytic solutions, Thinking and Reasoning
2016: Looking for Creativity: Where do we look when we look for new ideas?, Frontiers in Psychology
2009: Positive mood and anxiety modulate anterior cingulate activity and cognitive preparation for insight., Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (415-432 pp.)
2008: The Origins of Insight in Resting-State Brain Activity, Neuropsychologia (281-291 pp.)
2008: The transliminal brain at rest: Baseline EEG, unusual experiences, and access to unconscious mental activity., Cortex (1353-1363 pp.)
2007: Methods for Investigating the Neural Components of Insight., Methods (87-99 pp.)
2006: The Prepared Mind: Neural Activity Prior to Problem Presentation Predicts Subsequent Solution by Sudden Insight., Psychological Science (882-890 pp.)
2005: Mood effects on creative insight problem solving, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
2005: New approaches to demystifying insight., Trends in Cognitive Neuroscience (322-328 pp.)
2004: Neural activity observed in people solving verbal problems with insight., Public Library of Science - Biology (500-510 pp.)
2003: Normative Data for 144 Compound Remote Associate Problems, Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers (634-639 pp.)
2000: The right hemisphere maintains solution-related activation for yet-to-be solved insight problems., Memory & Cognition (1231-1241 pp.)
1997: Gender differences in self-evaluation biases: Convergent evidence from three measures of accuracy and bias., Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (157-172 pp.)
1997: The effect of reportable and unreportable hints on anagram solution and the aha! experience., Consciousness and Cognition (545-573 pp.)
1989: Testing the Principle of Orthogonality in Language Design., Human-Computer Interaction (95-120 pp.)
1985: Accessing relevant information during problem solving: Time constraints on search in the problem space, Memory & Cognition (280-286 pp.)
Key Service Activities
University Service
: Chairperson - Institutional Review Board, Co-chair
: Committee Member - Faculty Senate, Senator
Courses Taught
PSYC 250 - Psychological Statistics
PSYC 300 - Research Methods in Psychology
PSYC 301 - LEARNING AND MEMORY
PSYC 499 - Independent Study: