Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

The main purpose of current study is to examine the insight theory on the interpretation of remote associates problemsolving. In our experiment, we manipulated the position of keyword to alter the relaxation of constraint in the problem.Three kinds of problems were presented: the Keyword-in-Front (KF), Keyword-in-Middle (KM) and Keyword-in-Back(KB) problems. Fifty-eight undergraduates were recruited and the eye movements while they were solving these threeproblems were recorded. The results indicate that, (1) the correct rate of KM problems are higher than KB problems. (2)When individuals solve the KF problems or KB problems, they would display more regression counts and spend moretime gazing at the fixation region than key region. However, more time and regression counts are spent at the key regionwhile solving KM problems. The results of current experiment support the explanation of Representation Change Theoryon the solving process of remote associates problems.