Incubation benefits only after people have been misdirected

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 701-710

  Vul, Edward ^a,b   Pashler, Harold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COLLEGE STUDENT; CREATIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERNET; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; REMOTE ASSOCIATE TEST; SEMANTIC MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORY;

EID: 34547880360     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193308     Document Type: Article

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