Fig. 1.

A procedural schematic. In the learning phase, participants encoded cue-target pairs. During the TNT phase, participants suppressed the retrieval of some of the target words (No-think condition: top middle) and recalled others (Think condition: bottom middle). In the Remote Associates Test (i.e., the RAT), participants were asked to generate a word that linked the three cue words provided. Solutions for some of the RAT problems were target words from the studied pairs (i.e., from the No-think and Baseline conditions), but most problems had solutions that were novel words that had not been encoded.