The involvement of working memory and inhibition functions in the different phases of insight problem solving.
In this article, the involvement of working memory capacity and inhibition functions in different phases of insight problem solving is investigated, by employing a method of separating the different phases of insight problem solving directly, on the basis of the subjects' oral reports. Two experimen...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 43; no. 5; pp. 709 - 723 |
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