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Tip-of-the-tongue States: Phenomenology, Mechanism, and Lexical Retrieval

By Bennett L. Schwartz

Book information

Year
2001
ISBN
0805834451, 9780805834451, 9780585395630
Open Library ID
OL7937416M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2162922 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
192\184
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Tip-of-the-Tongue experiences are one of those illusive oddities of human cognition. Like slips of the tongue, d?j? vu, and visual illusions, TOTs dazzle us with their subjective strength, yet, at the same time, puzzle us with our frustrating inability to retrieve the desired word. This book discusses what little is known about TOTs and speculates about much of the rest of the riddle. Cognitive psychologists know a lot about processes but generally avoid issues of conscious experience and phenomenology. Because the larger goal of this book is to relate the TOT experience to the study of human phenomenology, it goes beyond the conventional cognitive psychology question, "What causes tip-of-the-tongue experiences?" to ask, "Why do we experience TOTs at all?"

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