kmont@hpindda.HP.COM (Kevin Montgomery) (06/28/89)
When people encounter the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon and, as sometimes occurs, remember only the begnning of the desired word, do they remember the first alphabetic letter or the first phonetic syllable on average? In the case of non-alphabetic character sets, do people with this phenomenon recall only part of the written character, or part of the word describing that character? thanks for any insights, kevin
dsr@stl.stc.co.uk (David Riches) (07/03/89)
I think that people remember the 'image' of what they're trying to remember but can not remember the associated word for it. Dave Riches PSS: dsr@stl.stc.co.uk ARPA: dsr%stl.stc.co.uk@earn-relay.ac.uk Smail: Software Design Centre, (Dept. 103, T2 West), STC Technology Ltd., London Road, Harlow, Essex. CM17 9NA. England Phone: +44 (0)279-29531 x2496
kmont@hpindda.HP.COM (Kevin Montgomery) (07/11/89)
For those interested, a couple of other responses I received are below: (looks like (from a very small sample set) the alphachars win, which (very) loosely implies that words may be stored based on visual information, not acoustic info)... kevin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ficc!peter@uunet.uu.net > When people encounter the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon and, > as sometimes occurs, remember only the begnning of the desired word, > do they remember the first alphabetic letter or the first phonetic > syllable on average? I almost always remember the first alphabetic letter, or maybe a phoneme. I very rarely remember a whole syllable. --- Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: huttar@svax.cs.cornell.edu (Lars Huttar) In article <3500009@hpindda.HP.COM> you write: > > When people encounter the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon and, >as sometimes occurs, remember only the begnning of the desired word, >do they remember the first alphabetic letter or the first phonetic >syllable on average? In the case of non-alphabetic character sets, >do people with this phenomenon recall only part of the written character, >or part of the word describing that character? > > thanks for any insights, > kevin If you're looking for a study, well, this isn't it, but I can tell you that when this phenomenon happens to me, I remember the first alphabetic character, even if it doesn't represent the first phoneme of the word. E.g. 'p' for 'phoneme'. Lars