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Retrieval failures that occur during attempts to recall the names of familiar people have been the subject of intense scrutiny in the 40 years that have elapsed since the publication of Yarmey's original investigation in 1973. Whereas Brown and McNeill (1966) had used definitions of words of relatively low frequency to elicit tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) states, Yarmey attempted to generate TOTs for familiar names by presenting participants with photographs of 50 famous people. As with Brown and McNeill, Yarmey's study provided a detailed record of the structural information about an elusive name that was available to participants when they experienced a TOT. Moreover, the use of photographs allowed Yarmey to investigate the biographical or “semantic” information about a person that participants could recall during a TOT, which cannot be assessed when using standard semantic cues such as definitions (Brown & McNeill, 1966). What Can Be Recalled during a TOT State for a Person's Name? Wh
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Retrieval failures that occur during attempts to recall the names of familiar people have been the subject of intense scrutiny in the 40 years that have elapsed since the publication of Yarmey's original investigation in 1973. Whereas Brown and McNeill (1966) had used definitions of words of relatively low frequency to elicit tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) states, Yarmey attempted to generate TOTs for familiar names by presenting participants with photographs of 50 famous people. As with Brown and McNeill, Yarmey's study provided a detailed record of the structural information about an elusive name that was available to participants when they experienced a TOT. Moreover, the use of photographs allowed Yarmey to investigate the biographical or “semantic” information about a person that participants could recall during a TOT, which cannot be assessed when using standard semantic cues such as definitions (Brown & McNeill, 1966). What Can Be Recalled during a TOT State for a Person's Name? Wh
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