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Subject: PSYCOLOQUY V1 #10 (Discussion: Memory 46 lines)
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PSYCOLOQUY                  Wed,  8 Aug 90       Volume 1 : Issue  10
      A response to Frank Dane's memory query
      Re: Dane's memory query

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From: jean%mcc.com@pucc (Jean McKendree)
Subject: A response to Frank Dane's memory query

In response to Frank Dane's question about studies of the problem
of not being able to retrieve something from memory:

A related topic is problem-solving and creativity as related to
"incubation", i.e. putting aside the task for awhile and coming
back later.  There are a number of papers on this phenomenon,
some even arguing that it doesn't happen.  Some recent papers have
found evidence that it is indeed a reliable phenomenon and they
attempt to develop a theory of the cognitive mechanisms that underlie
it, usually centering on priming effects.  One very interesting and
imaginative dissertation is:
   C. Kaplan, "Hatching a Theory of Incubation: Does putting a problem
   aside really help?", Carnegie-Mellon Psychology Department, Pittsburgh,
   PA, 1989.

I think he is revising it now for publication.

   Jean McKendree, MCC

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From: tkl%flash.bellcore.com@pucc (T K Landauer)
Subject: Re: Dane's memory query

Landauer Cognitive Psych, 1,495 (1975) proposes a theory
for this memory phenomenon, which at the time, had been best demonstrated
by Buschke. There has been a lot of later work, much of it under the title
of "hypermnesia" that is relevant.

Tom Landauer


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