Tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) State
Tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) state is the sensation that a person is capable to remember a presently unrecalled word. It could be defined as the state of momentary inaccessibility .
The TOT state, according to Nelson (2000), is the cognitive state in which an individual is aware about incomplete semantic or phonological information concerning a particular thing or word, but is unable to remember the entire remark. He used the expression ‘feeling of knowing’ that pertains to the phenomenological occurrence which let us know that a word is, for the moment, inaccessible. Other investigations on TOT are similar to Nelson’s observations wherein TOT was ...