Simulating incubation effects using the explicit implicit interaction with bayes factor (EII-BF) model

  • Authors:
  • Sebastien Helie;Ron Sun

  • Affiliations:
  • Psychology Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA;Cognitive Science Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

  • Venue:
  • IJCNN'09 Proceedings of the 2009 international joint conference on Neural Networks
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Most psychological theories of problem solving have focused on modeling explicit processes that gradually bring the solver closer to the solution in a mostly explicit and deliberative way. This approach to problem solving is typically inefficient when the problem is too com plex, ill-understood, or ambiguous. In such a case, a 'creative' approach to problem solving might be more appropriate. In the present paper, we propose a neural-network-based computational model implementing the Explicit-Implicit Interaction theory of creative problem solving that involves alternating between implicit and explicit processing. In the present, the new model is used to sim ulate the incubation process in lexical decision and free recall.