The English-language Wikipedia article on the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon (also known as TOT or lethologica), the temporary failure to retrieve a familiar word from memory despite partial recall and a strong feeling that retrieval is imminent, first described by William James in 1890 and first studied empirically by Brown and McNeill in 1966.
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URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tip_of_the_tongue
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Wikipedia: Tip of the Tongue
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This source backs 12 claims across the atlas. As facts: 8 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds. Plus 3 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Psychological Phenomena, 7 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 holds, 3 general references.
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