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Physiology & Medicine / Re: Its On the Tip Of My Tongue !! Why ?
« on: 20/09/2016 12:04:59 »Another phenomenon noticed about tip-of-the-tongue(TOT) problem.Remember the toy "Magic 8-Ball"?The answer floated up into a window.The brain does something similar.If the word won't come to you,back off and relax,still intending to think of the word eventually.The brain,somewhere behind the scenes,will often do a retrieval later,a half hour or whatever.The answer will suddenly come to mind consciously.An alternate,slower path has been used to accomplish the same task.
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yes, have often experienced that where the answer just appears 'spontaneously' later on. Clearly some memory retentive 'back-of-house' processes are still engaged even though we are not fully aware of it
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