Word concreteness as a moderator of the tip-of-the-tongue effect

Psychological Record

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 763-776

  Gianico Relyea, Jennifer L ^a,b   Altarriba, Jeanette ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Concreteness; Lexical retrieval; Tip of the tongue; Word frequency

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869185993     PISSN: 00332933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03395834     Document Type: Article

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