Sleep Does Not Promote Solving Classical Insight Problems and Magic Tricks

During creative problem solving, initial solution attempts often fail because of self-imposed constraints that prevent us from thinking out of the box. In order to solve a problem successfully, the problem representation has to be restructured by combining elements of available knowledge in novel an...

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Main Authors: Monika Schönauer, Svenja Brodt, Dorothee Pöhlchen, Anja Breßmer, Amory H. Danek, Steffen Gais
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnhum.2018.00072/full