Since the thread was about the brain and "cognitive psychology", may I bring back the "tip of the tongue"?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/11/001113071544.htm I don't know if there is any work that significantly updates the above, but it agrees more or less with my intuition and biases in favor of a behaviorist model: most/all cases of trying to remember a word or name are resolved as soon as someone else pronounces it "yes, that's it!". There is probably also "tip of the eye" where we know some visual object or pattern is like another, but can't immediately say in what way, which one etc. And of course tip of the ear for music, organs, animals and big engines! I would claim this suggests an object oriented, reaction centered cognitive model: the stimulus, over time, gets annotated with meanings, qualities, properties etc. Not unlike methods and properties in OO languages. The brain seems to have prioritized the ability to pick and choose a reaction to stimuli. Going the other way round, "French scandalous, old, president" (aren't they all) is an option, also "similar persons in recent history", but does not quite enjoy the same speed and immediacy. Likely, no? AT ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-c97d2393 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-2484a968 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
