Tip-of-the-Tongue States and Related Phenomena - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1316623262 ISBN 13: 9781316623268

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2016

Synopsis

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 - that is, 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 of a tip-of-the-tongue state. Each of these perspectives is represented in this book, which presents the best theoretical and empirical work on these subjects. Much of the work is cross-disciplinary, but what unifies the topics in this book is that they concern strong phenomenological states of knowing that are not accompanied by recall or recognition of the desired information.

About this title

Book Description:

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 are both universally experienced outside of the lab and readily produced in the lab, and therefore represent a unique opportunity to explore the nature of retrieval and its interaction with phenomenological experience. The study of tip-of-the-tongue states represents an important crossroads where cognitive psychology meets popular conceptions of mind and memory.

About the Author:

Bennett Schwartz is Professor of Psychology and Fellow of the Honors College at Florida International University. He received his PhD in cognitive psychology from Dartmouth College in 1993. He is the author of more than fifty publications, including journal articles, book chapters, edited books, and textbooks. He has published papers on animal memory, the language of thought, and adaptation and memory, but has worked most consistently on the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon and issues of metacognition. He is on the editorial board of several journals, including the Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition and Animal Cognition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1316623262
• ISBN 13: 9781316623268
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 366
• Editor: Schwartz Bennett L., Brown Alan S.