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Zander, Thea; Volz, Kirsten G.; Born, Jan; Diekelmann, Susanne – Learning & Memory, 2017
Sleep fosters the generation of explicit knowledge. Whether sleep also benefits implicit intuitive decisions about underlying patterns is unclear. We examined sleep's role in explicit and intuitive semantic coherence judgments. Participants encoded sets of three words and after a sleep or wake period were required to judge the potential…
Descriptors: Sleep, Semantics, Intuition, Decision Making
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Chuderski, Adam; Jastrzebski, Jan – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2017
The "nothing-special" account of insight predicts positive correlations of insight problem solving and working memory capacity (WMC), whereas the "special-process" account expects no, or even negative, correlations. In the latter vein, DeCaro, Van Stockum Jr., and Wieth (2016) have recently reported weak negative WMC…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Intuition, Correlation, Problem Solving