Across the whole group of participants, cued or uncued, the subsequent solving rate for puzzles that had appeared in dreams ...

Hearing a sound while working on a complex puzzle, and then hearing it again during sleep, helped lucid dreamers better ...

Could the same method one day power sleep-time ads? It's like the movie Inception, but without Leonardo DiCaprio, unless you imagine him. Researchers used carefully timed sound cues to nudge dream ...

New research now shows how dreams during REM sleep help the brain rethink problems and find creative solutions naturally.

Got a problem? Science says you should sleep on it.

For many years, the idea that “sleeping on it” would provide an individual with some time in which their subconscious mind would work through a problem or problems has generally been accepted as ...

Humans have long believed that dreams could be a source of creativity and a means to solving problems. It is often said that many famous ideas were in.

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." When 2D puzzles are no longer exciting, 3D brain teasers are the way. These handheld puzzles require ...

A pair of Carnegie Mellon University researchers recently discovered hints that the process of compressing information can solve complex reasoning tasks without pre-training on a large number of ...

Math puzzles test readers' critical thinking skills by challenging them to solve problems. Math puzzles can boost analytical ...

Ishikawa, Japan-- For decades, efforts in solving games had been exclusive to solving two-player games (i.e., board games like checkers, chess-like games, etc.), where the game outcome can be ...