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Record 1 2012-05-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cognitive Psychology
CONT

Feeling of knowing (FOK) is a research paradigm that has led to much debate over the character of metacognition. People often experienced FOK as a tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon, when they're not able to retrieve an item from memory, but feel that they should be.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie cognitive
CONT

Il est vrai que l'on peut aussi «ne pas savoir» en sachant parfaitement que l'on sait comme, par exemple, dans le «sentiment de savoir» ou le «mot-sur-le-bout-de-la-langue» [...] dans ce cas, le traitement dans le module d'accès lexical est interrompu alors qu'une forme de connaissance, implicite mais sans doute de haut niveau est encore accessible [...]

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