Interrupted: The roles of distributed effort and incubation in preventing fixation and generating problem solutions.
Fixation on inappropriate concepts is a key barrier to problem solving. Previous research has shown that continuous work is likely to cause repeated retrieval of those concepts, resulting in increased fixation. Accordingly, distributing effort across problems through multiple, brief, and interlaced...
| Published in: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 45; no. 4; pp. 553 - 566 |
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| Format: | Article |
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Springer Nature
May2017
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