Screen LibraryTip-of-the-tongue states and related phenomena /
"When the memory retrieval process breaks down, people wonder exactly why and how such a thing occurs. In many cases, failed retrieval is accompanied by a "tip-of-the-tongue state," a feeling that an unretrieved item is stored in memory. Tip-of-the-tongue states stand at the crossroad...
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| Group Author: | ; |
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 2014. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"When the memory retrieval process breaks down, people wonder exactly why and how such a thing occurs. In many cases, failed retrieval is accompanied by a "tip-of-the-tongue state," a feeling that an unretrieved item is stored in memory. Tip-of-the-tongue states stand at the crossroads of several research traditions within cognitive science. Some research focuses on the nature of the retrieval failure. Other research tries to determine what tip-of-the-tongue states can tell us about the organization of lexical memory - that is, what aspects of a word we can recall when we are otherwise unabl |
| Carrier Form: | viii, 356 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781107035225 (hardback) : 1107035228 (hardback) 1139950312 9781139950312 1139547380 9781139547383 1139959875 9781139959872 |
| Index Number: | BF376 |
| CLC: | B842.3 |
| Call Number: | B842.3/T595 |
| Contents: |
Why tip of the tongue states are important / Tip of the tongue (TOT) states: mechanisms and metacognitive control / There it is again on my tongue: tracking repeat TOTs / Retrieval failures for the names of familiar people / The effect of tip of the tongue states on other cognitive judgments / Why the journey to a word takes you no closer / |