In some cases it may be something simple as something blocking. SCHWARTZ: There are any number of theories as to what causes any particular forgetting event. Now, how do you get to the, oh yeah, that's John. You know, that sort of that feeling right where you're there and then you're like, oh yeah, that's John. SEABROOK: I love this idea that there is memory and then there is metamemory. In a tip-of-the-tongue state a part of our cognitive system called metacognition lets us know that even though we can't retrieve something at the moment it's probably there stored on our memory, and if we work at it we'll get it. SCHWARTZ: Not being able to remember something is a very common experience. What's happening in the brain when you have something at the tip of your tongue but you can't remember it. SEABROOK: Now, you study the way we remember things. Professor BENNETT SCHWARTZ (Psychology, Florida International University): Thank you. Well, these frustrating moments have been the subject of scientific study recently and it turns out that they tell us a lot about how the brain is organized.īennett Schwartz is a psychology professor at Florida International University. You know you know it but you just can't pull it out of your head - names are a big one here. SEABROOK: Today we're talking about those weird brain moments when you just can't quite remember a word. It happens to the best of us, and it's the subject of today's - what's that thing it's called? Oh yeah, Science out of the Box. There's at least one thing John McCain and Barack Obama would want to avoid doing during their debates - forgetting words.
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