Insights into sleep's role for insight: Studies with the number reduction task

Advances in Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 160-172

  Verleger, Rolf ^a   Rose, Michael ^b   Wagner, Ullrich ^c   Yordanova, Juliana ^a,d   Kolev, Vasil ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^d BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

EEG; ER Ps; Explicit knowledge; Implicit learning; Insight; Sleep

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892600926     PISSN: 18951171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5709/acp-0143-8     Document Type: Review

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