@ARTICLE{Brown1966,
  author = {Roger Brown and D McNeill},
  title = {The "tip of the tongue" phenomenon},
  journal = {J Verb Learn Verb Behav},
  year = {1966},
  volume = {5},
  pages = {325--337},
  abstract = {The "tip of the tongue" (TOT) phenomenon is a state in which one cannot
	quite recall a familiar word but can recall words of similar form
	and meaning. Several hundred such states were precipitated by reading
	to Ss the difinitions of English words of low frequency and asking
	them to try to recall the words. It was demonstrated that while in
	the TOT state, and before recall occurred, Ss had knowledge of some
	of the letters in the missing word, the number of syllables in it,
	and the location of the primary stress. The nearer S was to successful
	recall the more accurate the information he possessed. The recall
	of parts of words and attributes of words is termed "generic recall."
	The interpretation offered for generic recall involves the assumption
	that users of a language possess the mental equivalent of a dictionary.
	The featurse that figure in generic recall may be entered in the
	dictionary sooner than other features and so, perhaps, are wired
	into a more elaborate associative network. These more easily retrieved
	features of low-frequency words may be the features to which we chiefly
	attend in word-perception. The features favored by attention, especially
	the beginnings and endings of words, appear to carry more information
	than the features that are not favored, in particular the middles
	of words.}
}

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