Before revision: Department of Psychology, University of Aarhus, Denmark Incubation is defined as a process of unconscious recombination of thought elements that were stimulated through conscious work at one point in time, resulting in novel ideas at some later point in time.Seabrook Rachel, Dienes Zoltan (2003) .
After revision: Department of Psychology, University of Aarhus, Denmark Incubation is defined as , when attending to a different task, humans forget about the previous unsuccesful attempts and can engage with the task anew, often leading to finding the solution .