A question about models of recall and recognition based upon personal experience:
I have had the experience of not being able to recall a specific words (I hate growing older ;) ), but still can pull up enough context to do a search for the word. But here has been my experience--before I begin to scan the results of the search I suddenly am able to recall the word; it is almost as if the mere act of beginning the scan there is some level of 'pre-activation' that enables me to recall, but it feels as a gray area between recall and recognition. Now, I have not been active in cognitive psychology for a while, but my quick research review has not provided insight. So for those cognitive psychologists out there, including developmental psychologists, as it seems to be there are developmental processes that must be at play here, is there a body of specific to these processes? Perhaps it is just me and not a more global process at all?
I think the phenomenon you observed in yourself is not only common but has already been observed by Aristoteles, however it has been summarized in more specific theoretical frameworks in the 20th century.
See for example the concept of associative networks https://psychology.iresearchnet.com/social-psychology/social-cognition/associative-networks/
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Sven
Hi,
Here are some references on this topic:
Raaijmakers JG, Shiffrin RM. Models for recall and recognition. Annu Rev Psychol. 1992;43:205-34. doi: 10.1146/annurev.ps.43.020192.001225
Diana RA, Reder LM, Arndt J, Park H. Models of recognition: a review of arguments in favor of a dual-process account. Psychon Bull Rev. 2006 Feb;13(1):1-21. doi: 10.3758/bf03193807
Cowell RA, Barense MD, Sadil PS. A Roadmap for Understanding Memory: Decomposing Cognitive Processes into Operations and Representations. eNeuro. 2019 Jul 10;6(4):ENEURO.0122-19.2019. doi: 10.1523/ENEURO.0122-19.2019
Yonelinas AP. Components of episodic memory: the contribution of recollection and familiarity. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2001 Sep 29;356(1413):1363-74. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2001.0939.
Hi dear friend
In cognitive psychology there is a phenomenon called (tongue tip phenomenon) and it depends on the situation of learning and retrieving information in your mind. Are you a stimulus?
Lethologica was first identified as a serious, debilitating disorder by Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung in 1913 in his Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido (The Psychology of the Unconscious). Detailed studies of the disorder were first carried out by American psychiatrists in the 1950s. Current research identifies the ailment as extremely prevalent but also highly variable in its severity of manifestation. According to the American Psychiatric Association, "9 out of 10 Westerners will suffer some form of Lethologica during their lifetimes."
See https://www.bionity.com/en/encyclopedia/Lethologica.html
You're possibly experiencing normal retrieval-induced forgetting (where other elements stored with a name (or other names associated with the name you can't recall, but for different reasons not helpful in this case) are preventing its recall temporarily. Also, this is called the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon.
Thanks for all of the reply; so I am definitely familiar with tip-of-the-tongue phenomena, but I am not sure that this explains this process. Specifically, what I am very curious about is what model of memory process would address why the mere act of preparing to search, in a model of recognition would aid recall? Perhaps I am missing this in the current literature base, but this is the element I find most interesting about this experience.
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