?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Tip-of-the-Tongue+Phenomena%3A+An+Introductory+Phenomenological+Analysis&rft.creator=Brown%2C+Steven+R.&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Computational+Neuroscience&rft.subject=Artificial+Intelligence&rft.subject=Neural+Nets&rft.subject=Neural+Modelling&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.description=The+issue+of+meaningful+yet+unexpressed+background+-+to+language%2C+to+our+experiences+of+the+body+-+is+one+whose+exploration+is+still+in+its+infancy.+There+are+various+aspects+of+%22invisible%2C%22+implicit%2C+or+background+experiences+which+have+been+investigated+from+the+viewpoints+of+phenomenology%2C+cognitive+psychology%2C+and+linguistics.+I+will+claim+that+James%2C+as+explicated+by+Gurwitsch+and+others%2C+has+analyzed+the+phenomenon+of+fringes+in+such+a+way+as+to+provide+a+structural+framework+from+which+to+investigate+and+better+understand+those+ideas+or+concepts+that+are+unexpressed%2C+particularly+those+experienced+in+the+sense+of+being+sought-after.+I+will+consider+Johnson%C2%92s+conception+of+the+image-schematic+gestalt+(ISG)+as+a+way+of+bridging+the+descriptive+gap+between+phenomenology+and+cognitive+psychology.+Starting+from+an+analysis+of+the+fringes%2C+I+will+turn+to+a+consideration+of+the+of+tip-of-tongue+(TOT)+state%2C+as+a+kind+of+feeling-of-knowing+(FOK)+state%2C+from+a+variety+of+approaches%2C+focusing+mainly+on+cognitive+psychology+and+phenomenology.+I+will+then+integrate+a+phenomenological+analysis+of+these+experiences%2C+from+the+James%2FGurwitsch+structural+viewpoint%2C+with+a+cognitive%2Fphenomenological+analysis+in+terms+of+ISGs%3B+and+further+integrate+that+with+a+cognitive%2Ffunctional+analysis+of+consciousness.+I+will+employ+this+synthesis+of+three+viewpoints+to+explore+the+thesis+that+the+TOT+state+and+similar+experiences+may+relate+to+the+gestalt+nature+of+schemas+as+well+as+to+particular+cues%2C+and+may+thus+be+experienced+as+an+aspect+of+the+continuum+to+the+general+background+to+all+our+conscious+experiences.&rft.date=1999-05&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F382%2F1%2FTOThtml.html&rft.identifier=++Brown%2C+Steven+R.++(1999)+Tip-of-the-Tongue+Phenomena%3A+An+Introductory+Phenomenological+Analysis.++%5BPreprint%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F382%2F