The Tip of the Tongue State

The Tip of the Tongue State

by Alan S. Brown
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 27/04/2012

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This book brings together the body of empirical findings and theoretical interpretations of the tip of the tongue (TOT) experience – when a well-known or familiar word cannot immediately be recalled. Although research has been published on TOTs for over a century, the experience retains its fascination for both cognitive and linguistic researchers.


After a review of various research procedures used to study TOTs, the book offers a summary of attempts to manipulate this rare cognitive experience through cue and prime procedures. Various aspects of the inaccessible target word are frequently available – such as first letter and syllable number – even in the absence of actual retrieval, and the book explores the implications of these bits of target-word information for mechanisms for word storage and retrieval. It also examines: what characteristics of a word make it potentially more vulnerable to a TOT; why words related to the target word (called "interlopers") often come to mind; the recovery process, when the momentarily-inaccessible word is recovered shortly after the TOT is first experienced; and efforts to evaluate individual differences in the likelihood to experience TOTs.

ISBN:
9781136617980
9781136617980
Category:
Cognition & cognitive psychology
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
27-04-2012
Language:
English
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis

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