Increased pupil dilation during tip-of-the-tongue states |
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Affiliation: | 1. Functional Neuroimaging Laboratory, School of Psychology, University of Newcastle, Australia;2. Priority Research Centre for Translational Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Newcastle, Australia;3. Laboratory of Neuropsychology, University of the Balearic Islands, Mallorca, Spain;4. Asociación de Neuropsicología Balear (ANEBA), Mallorca, Spain |
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Abstract: | Tip-of-the-tongue states (TOTs) are feelings of impending word retrieval success during a current failure to retrieve a target word. Though much is known and understood about TOT states from decades of research, research on potential psychophysiological correlates of the TOT state is still in its infancy, and existing studies point toward the involvement of neural processes that are associated with enhanced attention, motivation, and information-seeking. In the present study, we demonstrate that, during instances of target retrieval failure, TOT states are associated with greater pupillary dilation (i.e., autonomic arousal) in 91% of our sample. This is the first study to demonstrate a pupillometric correlate of the TOT experience, and this finding provides an important step toward understanding emotional attributes associated with TOT states. Mean pupil dilation also increased such that instances of target identification failure that were unaccompanied by TOT states < instances in which TOTs occurred < instances of target identification success. It is possible that TOTs reflect an intermediary state between complete target retrieval failure and full target retrieval. |
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Keywords: | Tip-of-the-Tongue Pupillometry Pupil Dilation Memory Retrieval Failure Metacognition Learning |
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