The Incubation Effect: Hatching a Solution?

By S. Ellwood, G. Pallier, Allan Snyder, Jason E. Gallate. 2009

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The Cognitive Neuroscience of Creativity: A Critical Review (2011, background): “Contemporary creativity researchers have often studied incubation and its role in creative insight (Beeftink, van Eerde, & Rutte, 2008; Ellwood et al., 2009; Kohn & Smith, 2009; Patrick, 1986; Sternberg & Davidson, 1995).”
Incubation and creativity: Do something different (2013, background): “…activities (verbal vs. spatial), detailed below, used a clearly creative verbal divergent task (alternative uses) and a recognised spatial creativity task (creative synthesis); both tasks were scored for creativity as well as fluency, unlike Snyder et al. (2004) and Ellwood et al. (2009).”
A Dual Process Account of Creative Thinking (2011, background): “Ellwood, Pallier, Snyder, and Gallate ( 2009 ) found that, when generating ideas, performance was strongest when participants worked on an unrelated task during a break, rather than working on a similar task during the break or having no break at all.”
When Putting Work Off Pays Off: The Curvilinear Relationship between Procrastination and Creativity (2020, unknown): “germinate sometimes enhances creativity and some-times does not (Ellwood, Pallier, Snyder, & Gallate, 2009; Sio & Ormerod, 2009).”