The 'Tip of the Tongue' Phenomenon.¶
Brown, R., & McNeill, D. (1966). The 'Tip of the Tongue' Phenomenon. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 5(4), 325-337.
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Primes¶
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- Storage strength alone does not predict retrievability: a strongly stored item can be inaccessible from a non-overlapping cue, and a weakly stored item accessible from a strongly overlapping one — the tip-of-the-tongue state, where storage is intact but cues fail, is the clean case.
This sourceThe canonical study of the tip-of-the-tongue state, the clean case where storage is intact but retrieval cues fail.
- Storage strength alone does not predict retrievability: a strongly stored item can be inaccessible from a non-overlapping cue, and a weakly stored item accessible from a strongly overlapping one — the tip-of-the-tongue state, where storage is intact but cues fail, is the clean case.
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- The prime's distinctions illuminate a clinical phenomenon: a tip-of-the-tongue state is an index-hit but content-fetch-miss — the pointer fires (you know the word exists, its first letter, its shape) but the cortical fetch fails, precisely the failure profile an index, not a cache, would produce.
This sourceThe tip-of-the-tongue state as a retrieval failure in which partial-pointer information is available but the content fetch fails — the index-hit/content-miss failure profile.
- The prime's distinctions illuminate a clinical phenomenon: a tip-of-the-tongue state is an index-hit but content-fetch-miss — the pointer fires (you know the word exists, its first letter, its shape) but the cortical fetch fails, precisely the failure profile an index, not a cache, would produce.
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