# title
Getting into and out of mental ruts: A theory of fixation, incubation, and insight.

# abstract
explain what insight has to do with mental ruts, and . . . suggest some ways for climbing back out of such ruts / [focus] on what prevents insight experiences from occurring / [argue] that incubation improves the chances that insight experiences will occur by facilitating escape from the mental ruts that block insight / propose that patterns of fixation, incubation, and insight in problem solving resemble certain memory phenomena and can be explained, in part, in terms of a theory of memory interference and recovery <xh:br xmlns:search="http://marklogic.com/appservices/search" xmlns="http://apa.org/pimain" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xh="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"/> incremental progress versus restructuring in insight (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)