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Almost everybody has had the feeling of knowing the answer to a question, but not being quite able to say it. this is called the "tip-of-the-tongue" phenomenon, and is a failure of:

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It is caused by a failure of retrieval. Tip-of the tongue phenomen is more evident in a fear driven environment.
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