Tip-of-the-tongue experiences are not merely

Journal of General Psychology

Volumn 132, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 392-407

  Widner, Robert L ^a   Otani, Hajime ^b   Winkelman, Sarah E ^a  

^a MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY MANKATO   (United States)

^b CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Memory; Metacognition; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

EID: 27644490584     PISSN: 00221309     EISSN: 19400888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/GENP.132.4.392-407     Document Type: Article

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