Tip-of-the-Tongue States and Related Phenomena

This volume seeks to assemble various works on the 'tip-of-the-tongue state' and related phenomena.

Bennett L. Schwartz (Edited by), Alan S. Brown (Edited by)

9781316623268, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 6 October 2016

366 pages, 43 b/w illus. 12 tables
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.53 kg

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.

1. Why tip-of-the-tongue states are important Alan S. Brown and Bennett L. Schwartz
2. Tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) states: mechanisms and metacognitive control Bennett L. Schwartz and Janet Metcalfe
3. There it is again on my tongue: tracking repeat TOTs Alan S. Brown and Katie Croft Caderao
4. Retrieval failures for the names of familiar people J. Richard Hanley
5. The effect of tip-of-the-tongue states on other cognitive judgments Anne M. Cleary, Shelly R. Staley and Kimberly R. Klein
6. Why the journey to a word takes you no closer Trevor A. Harley
7. Tip-of-the-tongue in mild cognitive impairment (MCI) Onésimo Juncos-Rabadán, David Facal and Arturo X. Pereiro
8. Metamemory and Parkinson's disease Justin D. Oh-Lee and Hajime Otani
9. Psychopharmacological approach of the metamemory and TOT phenomenon Marie Izaute and Elisabeth Bacon
10. Neurofunctional correlates of the tip-of-the-tongue state Fernando Díaz, Mónica Lind?n, Santiago Galdo-Alvarez and Ana Buján
11. The blank in the mind experience: another manifestation of tip-of-the-tongue state or something else? Anastasia Efklides
12. On the empirical study of déjà vu: borrowing methodology from the study of the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon Anne M. Cleary
13. Déjà vu in older adults Chris J. A. Moulin, Celine Souchay, Sarah Buchanan, Rosemary Bradley, Dilay Zeynep Karadoller and Melisa Akan
14. Odor knowledge, odor naming, and the 'tip-of-the-nose' experience Frederik U. Jönsson and Richard J. Stevenson
15. What do we know when we forget? Asher Koriat and Ravit Nussinson.

Subject Areas: Cognition & cognitive psychology [JMR], Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology [JMM], Psycholinguistics [CFD]