Tip of the tongue
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The tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon (TOT or presque vu, from the French for "almost seen") is the failure to retrieve a word from memory, combined with partial recall and the feeling that retrieval is imminent.
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See also
- Memory and aging
- Psycholinguistics
- Neurolinguistics
- Metamemory
- Dysnomia (disorder)
- Neuroanatomy of memory
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