Tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) states: Retrieval, behavior, and experience

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 737-749

  Schwartz, Bennett L ^a   Metcalfe, Janet ^b  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Lexical retrieval; Metacognition; Metamemory; Retrieval; Tip of the tongue states

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANOMIA; ASSOCIATION; AWARENESS; CHILD; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; RECALL; RECOGNITION; REVIEW; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANOMIA; AWARENESS; CHILD; CUES; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80055034634     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: 15325946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-010-0066-8     Document Type: Article

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