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

Schwartz, Bennett L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805834451 ISBN 13: 9780805834451

Publisher: Psychology Press, 2001

Synopsis

Tip-of-the-Tongue experiences are one of those illusive oddities of human cognition. Like slips of the tongue, déjà 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?"

About this title

Synopsis:

This text focuses on TOTs, asking what they are, the theories of TOT etiology, as a window on retreival; functional aspects, and the theories of metacognition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0805834451
• ISBN 13: 9780805834451
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192