Tip-of-the-Tongue States and Related Phenomena

Bennett L. Schwartz, Alan S. Brown

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9781107035225
• eBook ISBN:
  9781139950312
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Applied Psychology
• Index: Psychology

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 - what aspects of a word we can recall when we are otherwise unable to do so. Still other research focuses on the nature of the experience. Each perspective is represented in this book, which presents the best theoretical and empirical work on these subjects. Much of the work is cross-disciplinary, but the topics concern strong phenomenological states of knowing that are not accompanied by recall or recognition of the desired information.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Title page
• Copyright information
• Table of contents
• List of contributors
• 1 Why Tip-of-the-Tongue States Are Important
• 2 Tip-of-the-Tongue (TOT) States: Mechanisms and Metacognitive Control
• 3 There It Is Again on My Tongue: Tracking Repeat TOTs
• 4 Retrieval Failures for the Names of Familiar People
• 5 The Effect of Tip-of-the-Tongue States on Other Cognitive Judgments
• 6 Why the Journey to a Word Takes You No Closer
• 7 Tip-of-the-Tongue in Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI)
• 8 Metamemory and Parkinson’s Disease
• 9 The Psychopharmacological Approach to Metamemory and the TOT Phenomenon
• 10 Neurofunctional Correlates of the Tip-of-the-Tongue State
• 11 The Blank-in-the-Mind Experience: Another Manifestation of the Tip-of-the-Tongue State or Something Else?
• 12 On the Empirical Study of Déjà Vu: Borrowing Methodology from the Study of the Tip-of-the-Tongue Phenomenon
• 13 Déjà Vu in Older Adults
• 14 Odor Knowledge, Odor Naming, and the “Tip-of-the-Nose” Experience
• 15 What Do We Know When We Forget?
• Author Index
• Subject Index