Ciekawostka: The word “lethologica” describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want

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Tip of the tongue (also known as TOT, or lethologica) is the phenomenon of failing to retrieve a word or term from memory, combined with partial recall and the feeling that retrieval is imminent. The phenomenon's name comes from the saying, "It's on the tip of my tongue." The tip of the tongue phenomenon reveals that lexical access occurs in stages. People experiencing the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon can often recall one or more features of the target word, such as the first letter, its syllabic stress, and words similar in sound, meaning, or both sound and meaning. Individuals report a feeling of being seized by the state, feeling something like mild anguish while searching for the word,…

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Why you can remember every word of a song from 25 years ago – but not why you walked into the room

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Aphasia, also known as dysphasia, is an impairment in a person's ability to comprehend or formulate language because of dysfunction in specific brain regions. The major causes are stroke and head trauma; prevalence is hard to determine, but aphasia due to stroke is estimated to be 0.1–0.4% in developed countries. Aphasia can also be the result of brain tumors, epilepsy, autoimmune neurological diseases like multiple sclerosis, infection of the brain, or neurodegenerative diseases like dementias. To be diagnosed with aphasia, a person's ability to produce and/or comprehend written and/or spoken language must be significantly impaired. In the case of progressive aphasia, this impairment progr…

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The Real World: Verbicide, Do You Remember When Paradigm Used to be a Very Cool Word?

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