As if that feeling wasn’t annoying enough.
There aren’t many things that we all have in common but I’d be willing to bet that we have all experienced the tip-of-the-tongue feeling. Whether it’s a word, the name of a song, the name of somebody we’ve only met once or twice, this feeling is incredibly frustrating and if you’re anything like me, bothers you until you remember the word. Even if it’s days later.
Until now, it was thought that this sensation occurred as a result of the brain partially recollecting the answer but according to new research, this experience might actually be an illusion.on college students, published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General was undertaken to look further into this phenomenon. During the experiments, students were asked to answer 80 general knowledge questions with one word answers.
There is some hope for those of us who experience TOT pauses though with previous research indicating that with prompts such as multiple choice answers, people are more likely to get to the correct answer. In the concluding comments of the research, researchers state that, “Curiosity is often taken to be a pleasant experience—the happy state of an enquiring mind. This perspective, concerning the positive emotional quality of curiosity, contrasts starkly with the nagging, tormented quality so frequently ascribed to TOT states.”, which is common in people with neurological disorders such as epilepsy.
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