Things to look for that very likely exist in a brain and are rarely discussed by neuroscientists: speculative code execution, mutexes. Things (somewhat) known by other names: reward integration, ping/ack cycles, polymorphism
I think you are talking about bridging discontinuities in a search space, but that may happen in many ways and likely won't have a single specific, distinct mechanism we can look for in the brain.
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