This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Passive priming of prior knowledge to assimilate ongoing experiences underlies advanced cognitive processing. However, the necessary neural ...

Intuition is nothing magical. Much of our everyday knowledge is implicit or tacit. Let me give a personal example. As a teenager, I used to sit and do my homework with the window open in my room on ...

When the human mind drifts away from a specific task, it may actually improve the ability to absorb hidden patterns in the environment. A new study suggests that this mental wandering facilitates a ...