Sleep on it, but only if it is difficult: Effects of sleep on problem solving
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Sleep on it, but only if it is difficult: effects of sleep on problem solving.
Previous research has shown that performance on problem solving improves over a period of sleep, as compared with wakefulness. However, these studies have not determined whether sleep is beneficial for problem solving or whether sleep merely mitigates against interference due to an interruption to solution attempts. Sleep-dependent improvements have been described in terms of spreading activati...
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عنوان ژورنال: Memory & Cognition
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0090-502X,1532-5946
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-012-0256-7