A similar problem I have way too often, is that I remember the English word for something, but just can't quite grasp the German equivalent. I am from Germany ...
Haha, who knows :D Well I don't have it that often but it does sometimes and it's a bit awkward as people think that would'd instead forget the english word ^.^ We should all speak english, then, problem solved!
+Garbaz This happened a long time ago to a friend of German friend of mine. He was speaking to his mother in German and was trying to tell her "the flight was cancelled" -- he kept saying "gekanzelt" instead of "abgasagt".
OK BUT... I have noticed that these tip-of-the-tongue things are sometimes contagious! Is that a thing anyone else has experienced? Like, if there's a word on the tip of my tongue, and I ask a friend for help, sometimes my FRIEND finds that the word is on the tip of HER tongue, too! So now we're both sitting around trying to puzzle it out together... Anyone else get this?
+slut4berniesanders Yes. Way more often than when I experience the phenomena by myself. For whatever reason, it seems that being social has some cascading effect on my neuro-plasticity and I get tongue tied much more often and much more frequently when I am talking to people, as opposed to just thinking or typing. And as you point out, when I experience it and mention that I am experiencing it it seems to happen to whomever I am talking to more often as well.
+evilcam Well thinking or typing don't have to activate the sound neurons I am pretty sure. At least I think that is what Hank was getting at. So the only logical reason you would get tongue tied is if you are being social. :)
Well, I would think that is a rational explanation if I only got tongue tied while being social. That It happens when I am not talking to anyone makes me think there is more to it...but truth be told I have no idea how it works. So I think even while thinking alone and by yourself suggests that we sometimes use that cascading connection model, thus apparently trying to coax out a phonetic sound, even when not being social. That it happens much more often when I am talking to people certainly suggests that you are on to something though.
I find this subject interesting. I started long ago with my kids to simply ask the person that is in this state "WHAT DOES IT DO?" . That most times results in them knowing the word they're looking for. I know it makes their brain think about the same thing differently and clears the brain to say the word. At the very least they can then describe it instead , and that teaches it so later it's more used and easy access. Love your shows.
+Lenda Thompson Great, so I read your comment when I was about 20 seconds in and from there on out paid more attention to the captions and the play time than what he was talking about >
Once a friend and I were both struggling to remember the word "anspruchsvoll" (we're both Germans) for an entire day, it wasn't until late night that one of us finally got it. Amazing how relieved and enthusiastic two people can be over one single word - we still occasionally talk about that day. Needless to say that's a word we'll probably never forget again.
Teacher: "what is the name of the chemical formula HCl?" Student:"..." Teacher: "..." Student: "..." Teacher: "Well!?" Student: "It's... It's on the tip of my tongue" Teacher: "WELL SPIT IT OUT, IT'S HYDROCHLORIC ACID!"
Me: 'So then they played that song...dammit.. You know it? Friend: Nope Me: Has that electronica sound...Kinda 80's Friend: {stares blankly} Me: You know it. It goes something like dun de dundun dun de dundun. Friend: {snickers}... Roxette? Me: No! Dammit it's gone now. *Three Days Later* {brain-click/successful Googling} = call friend Me: Yazoo. It was Yazoo - Only You Friend: What was? Me: The song Friend: What song? Me: The song I was trying to remember the other day. Friend: Ooooh OK. Yeah, I would never have guessed that. The story of my life.
Lately I've been forgetting words so much. I'm only 19, but I forgot simple words multiple times a day at worst. And it's only getting worse. I have even forgot the word 'door' a fews times, and other such simple words. Is that normal, or is something wrong?
+cortster12 im the same way lol never took drugs and words just get stuck even simple words but im a very nervous person so when i talk words get stuck and its so embarrassing lol my words are so rusty. 😂
Can we do a video on (or can someone explain) why the skin of your lips is so significantly different than other skin? Like evolutionarily, why color, moisturization, etc. are different than normal skin. Part of me is too lazy too look it up, but I also thought it could be a cool topic and didn't want to ruin it for myself lol
theuninspiredpoet: I constantly suffer of both of those phenomenons... Based in my experience, I think lethologica happens more when you're under stress or when you're speaking too fast or when you get distracted easily. Loganamnosis happens when you get angry at yourself when you can't remember a word that you know, specifically every time you need to use it, like in a exam.
I absolutely love this. My friend and I couldn't think of the word 'competent' and I think we came up with every other word that starts with 'com' before we got it. Now I know what the heck my brain is doing!
I remember on a podcast I was listening to once, one of the people on it had one of these moments with the word "amnesia." I can't tell if that's irony or a coincidence. Lol
I've been watching this channel for quite a while now and frankly I just want to say, I love you guys... I like to think I've become a smarter person, and I have a new found interest in science... it also helps that my family has started calling me the fountain of useless information... mainly because I'll quote this show a lot...
I had this on a geography test on the geological features of Australia. One of things I didn't know was the Gulf of Carpentaria, the body of water in northern Australia, where Darwin is, etc. I put down the Gulf of Australia knowing that wasn't the answer. I knew it started with a C. Later that day I remembered it in the shower.
It makes me think of when computers have incorrect data paths within a directory and you can't find what you are looking for because what you need is somewhere else.
I get this a lot for old television shows, a few months back I recalled a memories of a childrens show I saw as a child but could not remember its name at all, but I could describe the show pretty well, I found reddit to be very helpful in answering my question, all I remembered was the show had puppets, royalty and the puppets had square eyes, turns out the show was Cloppa Castle.
I once forgot the word "charger" when I needed to charge my phone. So I called it "electric tail". The name stuck and now the whole family calls it that.
I was thinking about how I consistently have an easier time remembering a word after having it in a TOTS, and wondering why it seems my experience is so consistently inconsistent with scientific findings. Then I remembered all my examples were actually when someone tried to help me and failed. Nobody has ever actually helped me of a TOTS.
The reason it took six determined months to learn the proper terms for all the similar machines at work: All I have to do is say "the thing" and everybody knows what I'm talking about (??). But saying "this thing" "that thing" is very ineffective communication. Sometimes it's better to just slow down.
I don't recall ever having experienced this in such a way that I say the wrong word. I only ever just forget a word completely for a period of time, I don't arrive at wrong versions.
My dad and I are autistic, and we frequently have trouble finding our words. The polite thing to do for us is to supply a possible word when they're struggling. This both helps along the conversation and shows that you were listening. My mom on the other hand does not like this social rule. She sees it as I interrupting and putting words in her mouth.
I always forget the word sentimental for some reason. I can only remember it by singing through 'Wicked' in my head (the wizard sings, "I am a sentimental man")
you eventually do remember the word you were looking for, a week later, at 3 am, when you're trying to sleep and the moment is long past, but now you're so happy it came to you that you can't sleep anymore the rest of the night
I just caught an Abra (pokemon) while you were talking, so I named him after you, Hank. Both are smart and blond, I think it fits. I'll evolve him, I promise.
I'm especially bad about this when it comes to names, but that's probably only because it's rare for me to use a person's name while I'm talking to them. It becomes harder to make that connection without frequent use.
I had this happen to me at a Christmas light show, I was going to say that it was nostalgic, couldn't remember the word, and then a few weeks later I woke up and I was like: THE WORD WAS NOSTALGIA OMFG I NEED TO GO TELL MY FRIEND!!! (ps, she didn't care.)
Here is a tool tip that works for me most of the time: if you want to remember a word, go audibly through the alphabet. When you reach the correct letter it triggers the memory. It just does not work with words which start with sounds that do not have a corresponded in the alphabet, like "sheet" won't be triggered by an "s", but "street" would.
My cat (Barbecue) walked up to me with and looked like she wanted to say something, but couldn't remember. Eventually she left. After about 15 mins, she came back and had this look of confidence as if she figure out the meaning of life. She looks me straight in the eye and said..........damn it I forgot what she said, gimme a sec.
I can't help but be impressed about either your greenscreen, chroma key software, animator, or heck... Even all of the above. The greenscreen is reflecting in the black plastic of his glasses, when you key out the background that tends to leave some nasty scarring of the final image in that area and hard transition lines. But this just adapts to the background image perfectly with gradient transition. Cool... :O
This info is really useful as I have been doing exactly that with my Dad who has had a few small strokes. It's good to know I'm doing the right thing to help him rebuild his neural pathways again. TY :)
Sometimes when I am listening to a song and I know the lyrics I start singing but I don't remember the name of the song. I know all the lyrics but I don't know what I'm singing, until the name of the song appears in the middle of the song then I realize ohhh thats the song, I love this one lol
I try and go around the problem you get from someone telling you the word by spending time after (normally a few minutes) repeating the word over and over again (mostly in my head, but a little bit out load also).
Fortunately, my TOTS are almost always about pointless trivia, so somebody else providing the word isn't really hurting my learning ability much. Like, yeah, maybe I'll never learn to remember the name of that actress in "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," but I will probably survive.
I used to not get this at all. Maybe once every few months. Then I got my brains bashed in. I went through a phase where the connects were broken for like a quarter of the words, ideas, and concepts I had in a day. It was like swimming through molasses, no amount of thinking or even hints would get me to the answer, but once I managed to provide enough information for someone else to say it the fog would clear and I knew what I was saying again. When I got to one of those brick walls I'd also get stuck per se, I couldn't think of anything else until the path was connected. Now I'm mostly good. I still occasionally hit brick walls where the connections aren't firing properly, but now I can usually figure out a back road to the information I want.
Weird... This just popped up on my facebook feed and I decided I'd watch it, and what do you talk about? The very thing I had a tutorial on earlier today and was very confused about! (It's connectionism, btw.) Thank you, Hank, for helping me out with a topic I was struggling with and didn't even know this video would cover!
Once when I was in college I was trying to think of the actor who was in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein but I just could not remember him name. Fast forward to the next day during my drawing class; everyone is pretty quiet and busy working and I suddenly remember and shout "GENE WILDER!!"
I've found that thinking of other letters than what the word actually starts with helps. Like if you're trying to think of a word that starts with S you avoid all words that start with S.
What works for me most of the time is to close my eyes and run through the alphabet, visualizing all of the letters of the alphabet, one after the other. If that doesn't work by giving the answer the first couple of times. I usually end up with a few letters that strike a chord in my memory. These letters are then displayed in my mind's eye and I then attach letters that are used commonly next to these letters hoping to ring a bell and make a complete word from that. If that doesn't work for that letter I repeat the process with the other letters that came to mind and keep doing that until I get an answer. The words I have the most problem bringing to mind are those that begin with a vowel.
There are practices that can be done to help with that phenomenon. When I can't immediately retrieve a word while writing, I take a moment, and set up the protocol which is putting my finger tips on either side of my temples and talk to my brain. I don't go looking for the word with the brain, I let it do its thing. I take my hands down from my head and take a deep breath and relax, and within moments the correct word I was looking for pops up. You can set-up your protocols any way you want, but you must be consistent in your execution. By allowing your brain to do the work you don't interfere with the process of discovery with internal BS dialogue. In actuality you have to get yourself out of the way.
One day I was walking around the streets of Philadelphia, just sightseeing, with my two adult sons. We wanted to get an authentic Philadelphia Cheesesteak, so I was going to ask someone as we passed them on the sidewalk, and I was practicing in my mind, “Excuse me. Can you tell me where we can get a Chil-a-delphia Feeze-steak? ... NO! That’s not right! Feeze-steak! NO!...”. And no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t say Philadelphia Cheesesteak correctly. Laughing, I told my sons. I said it out loud a couple of times and finally got it right. The three of us still chuckling a bit, I correctly asked the next person that we were approaching ~ I said, “Excuse me. Can you tell me where we can get a Philadelphia Cheesesteak?” The person responded by saying, “Chil-a-delphia Feeze-steak?” Honest to god, this is true!
I’ve watched the TERMinator. It was a movie where Arnold Schwarzenegger was sitting in a chair reading a dictionary, then an encyclopedia, hence the TERMinator…
This happened today when I was talking with my mother about body farms and I wanted to say "They use it to help the police with forensic research", but couldn't remember the word "forensic". I was like "...research...something research..." my mother suggested "scientific" but I told her "No...it's not that...it's when the police investigate a crime...includes autopsy...they take evidence, DNA samples, fingerprints..." and it was so frustrating. She asked me to just move on but it was so frustrating and I insisted that I knew the word.
Who knew that when you help someone out with the troubled word it is worse for them. I wonder why such a small curious idea about a word stuck on the tip of your tongue has been widely researched since the 1960"s. Being a college student I believe that experiencing a tip of the tongue states once a week and once daily as we age is very true because of all the knowledge crammed into our brains, we sometimes flustered or exhausted from the school work. I found it so funny that the term "ugly sisters" are used to explain the blockers of words.
Might explain why my method of getting past this works so well, which is to go through the alphabet until a letter feels right and then if the word doesn't come to me after that try letters that are likely to follow. So I realise A sounds right and think As, At, An, Ar, AR, ARnold. Works most of the time.
My favorite "tip-of-the-tongue" moment was when a friend was trying to say Posieden a couple years back. She was having difficulty connecting the Greek sea god with his name, and in trying to explain to me who she was talking about, she tried saying "the guy with the trident," but she couldn't connect the word trident with what she was trying to say, either! So she ended up saying, and I quote! "The, the guy with the, the fancy... The fancy pitchfork! The guy with the fancy pitchfork that controls water! POSIEDEN!" I was so proud of her, she signed fork, using ASL, to remind herself of the "fancy pitchfork", then actually connecting fancy pitchforks to the Greek god of the sea.
This happens to me every day with the same word.... As soon as I remember that word, I am going to type it into my phone and save it as my screensaver.
I wonder if there's a form of memetic contagion when dealing with this. Frequently, when I recruit help trying to remember a word, the other person will also fall afoul of the effect. It's almost as if I'm spreading it when I try to get help.
This happened to me and all I could think was "bam bam" with a swinging motion .... I was looking for a hammer at the time and yes my coworkers didn't let me live it down for a while.
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Just got home from school, the learning just starts.
hey, wake up
This episode is 4:04 long, words not found.
Damit not the 404 error!
ReggiGamez stop
LOL That's just so creepy and wrong, yet so apropos. XD
Haha!
XD i wonder if that was intended?
A similar problem I have way too often, is that I remember the English word for something, but just can't quite grasp the German equivalent.
I am from Germany ...
+Garbaz That happens to me too! ^^ I'm from France and I can't get the french word sometimes! x)
+Garbaz Are you me? I have that problem ALL the time up to the point where everyone's making fun of me for it. :D
Haha, who knows :D
Well I don't have it that often but it does sometimes and it's a bit awkward as people think that would'd instead forget the english word ^.^ We should all speak english, then, problem solved!
+Garbaz This happened a long time ago to a friend of German friend of mine. He was speaking to his mother in German and was trying to tell her "the flight was cancelled" -- he kept saying "gekanzelt" instead of "abgasagt".
+Garbaz Happens to me, too, my solution is to slap the English word in there anyways and just look like a cultured intellectual (or a douche).
SHE WANTS TO DANCE LIKE ERNA THULMAN
BURY ME TILL I CONNECT
+Silver WolfHeart SHE WANTS TO DANCE LIKE ERNA THULMAN AND I KNOW THAT WORD'S SOMEWHERE IN MY HEAD
+Punky Ukester The mud, the mud, the mud of the fam
+Punky Ukester Your icon is goals
NatashaGiggles So is yours fren
OK BUT... I have noticed that these tip-of-the-tongue things are sometimes contagious! Is that a thing anyone else has experienced? Like, if there's a word on the tip of my tongue, and I ask a friend for help, sometimes my FRIEND finds that the word is on the tip of HER tongue, too! So now we're both sitting around trying to puzzle it out together... Anyone else get this?
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lb9dunk well alright then
+slut4berniesanders Yes. Way more often than when I experience the phenomena by myself. For whatever reason, it seems that being social has some cascading effect on my neuro-plasticity and I get tongue tied much more often and much more frequently when I am talking to people, as opposed to just thinking or typing. And as you point out, when I experience it and mention that I am experiencing it it seems to happen to whomever I am talking to more often as well.
+evilcam Well thinking or typing don't have to activate the sound neurons I am pretty sure. At least I think that is what Hank was getting at. So the only logical reason you would get tongue tied is if you are being social. :)
Well, I would think that is a rational explanation if I only got tongue tied while being social. That It happens when I am not talking to anyone makes me think there is more to it...but truth be told I have no idea how it works. So I think even while thinking alone and by yourself suggests that we sometimes use that cascading connection model, thus apparently trying to coax out a phonetic sound, even when not being social. That it happens much more often when I am talking to people certainly suggests that you are on to something though.
I was gonna say something, but i forgot it...
I think you have dementia
Who are you?
+neilsonjefferson k
Why am I here again?
I'm sorry if I stop talking, I have A--...
I find this subject interesting. I started long ago with my kids to simply ask the person that is in this state "WHAT DOES IT DO?" . That most times results in them knowing the word they're looking for. I know it makes their brain think about the same thing differently and clears the brain to say the word.
At the very least they can then describe it instead , and that teaches it so later it's more used and easy access.
Love your shows.
Oh my gosh.. the captioning at 3:21... someone should probably fix that.
+Lenda Thompson Ha! Good catch!
+Lenda Thompson what did it say?
+Lenda Thompson Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow....and funny!
SciShow I rewatched it about 10 times and was laughing for a solid 15 minutes.
+Lenda Thompson Great, so I read your comment when I was about 20 seconds in and from there on out paid more attention to the captions and the play time than what he was talking about >
Once a friend and I were both struggling to remember the word "anspruchsvoll" (we're both Germans) for an entire day, it wasn't until late night that one of us finally got it. Amazing how relieved and enthusiastic two people can be over one single word - we still occasionally talk about that day. Needless to say that's a word we'll probably never forget again.
It's the best feeling in the world when you're stuck on a word and then it comes to you without help :}
Teacher: "what is the name of the chemical formula HCl?"
Student:"..."
Teacher: "..."
Student: "..."
Teacher: "Well!?"
Student: "It's... It's on the tip of my tongue"
Teacher: "WELL SPIT IT OUT, IT'S HYDROCHLORIC ACID!"
+initialsCKN you need to wash your tongue at the nearest wash station. I don't what concentration the acid is at, but don't take any chances.
+Piper Johnson it's a joke. As in the student made the teacher say the answer
+Connor Shea it's a joke. The student got the teacher to say the answer
+initialsCKN Hipoclorito!!!!
😂😂😂 my science teacher would laugh so hard
Me: 'So then they played that song...dammit.. You know it?
Friend: Nope
Me: Has that electronica sound...Kinda 80's
Friend: {stares blankly}
Me: You know it. It goes something like dun de dundun dun de dundun.
Friend: {snickers}... Roxette?
Me: No! Dammit it's gone now.
*Three Days Later*
{brain-click/successful Googling} = call friend
Me: Yazoo. It was Yazoo - Only You
Friend: What was?
Me: The song
Friend: What song?
Me: The song I was trying to remember the other day.
Friend: Ooooh OK. Yeah, I would never have guessed that.
The story of my life.
Lately I've been forgetting words so much. I'm only 19, but I forgot simple words multiple times a day at worst. And it's only getting worse. I have even forgot the word 'door' a fews times, and other such simple words. Is that normal, or is something wrong?
+cortster12
You probably just be stressed out because of something.
+cortster12 Stop smoking weed.
+cortster12 less drugs more hugs
redsox999233 I don't take any drugs at all. The most I've ever taken was a simple pain reliever when I have a headache.
+cortster12 im the same way lol never took drugs and words just get stuck even simple words but im a very nervous person so when i talk words get stuck and its so embarrassing lol my words are so rusty. 😂
Can we do a video on (or can someone explain) why the skin of your lips is so significantly different than other skin? Like evolutionarily, why color, moisturization, etc. are different than normal skin. Part of me is too lazy too look it up, but I also thought it could be a cool topic and didn't want to ruin it for myself lol
"knowy good stuff"
- Hank 2015
There is an English word for this phenomenon: lethologica. And the obsession with trying to recall the forgotten word is known as loganamnosis.
theuninspiredpoet: I constantly suffer of both of those phenomenons... Based in my experience, I think lethologica happens more when you're under stress or when you're speaking too fast or when you get distracted easily. Loganamnosis happens when you get angry at yourself when you can't remember a word that you know, specifically every time you need to use it, like in a exam.
"In English we don't have a term for it."
"...tip-of-the-tongue..."
Well, evidently we do.
I absolutely love this. My friend and I couldn't think of the word 'competent' and I think we came up with every other word that starts with 'com' before we got it. Now I know what the heck my brain is doing!
I'm totally crushing on Hank now after the phrase. "Knowy good stuff." Lol, gold, pure gold Hank.
This is actually a huge part of language teaching. Generating ´TOT states´ at every opportunity and guiding students towards ´resolution´.
I remember on a podcast I was listening to once, one of the people on it had one of these moments with the word "amnesia." I can't tell if that's irony or a coincidence. Lol
I have no audio so I'm watching with subtitles. Its surprisingly hard, to read at the speed Hank Green talks! XDD
I've been watching this channel for quite a while now and frankly I just want to say, I love you guys... I like to think I've become a smarter person, and I have a new found interest in science... it also helps that my family has started calling me the fountain of useless information... mainly because I'll quote this show a lot...
Leonardo decaprio and Leonardo davinci have close paths
I had this on a geography test on the geological features of Australia. One of things I didn't know was the Gulf of Carpentaria, the body of water in northern Australia, where Darwin is, etc. I put down the Gulf of Australia knowing that wasn't the answer. I knew it started with a C. Later that day I remembered it in the shower.
Was Erma Thulman in Kale Bale?
It makes me think of when computers have incorrect data paths within a directory and you can't find what you are looking for because what you need is somewhere else.
I get this a lot for old television shows, a few months back I recalled a memories of a childrens show I saw as a child but could not remember its name at all, but I could describe the show pretty well, I found reddit to be very helpful in answering my question, all I remembered was the show had puppets, royalty and the puppets had square eyes, turns out the show was Cloppa Castle.
I once forgot the word "charger" when I needed to charge my phone. So I called it "electric tail". The name stuck and now the whole family calls it that.
So glad to understand this finally. Inquiring minds NEED to know so I won't let anyone help me figure it out, thereby helping myself.
I was thinking about how I consistently have an easier time remembering a word after having it in a TOTS, and wondering why it seems my experience is so consistently inconsistent with scientific findings. Then I remembered all my examples were actually when someone tried to help me and failed. Nobody has ever actually helped me of a TOTS.
The reason it took six determined months to learn the proper terms for all the similar machines at work: All I have to do is say "the thing" and everybody knows what I'm talking about (??). But saying "this thing" "that thing" is very ineffective communication.
Sometimes it's better to just slow down.
I kind of knew the day to day implications of this but seeing the science behind it is very interessting.
interesting that we intuitively help those stuck by giving partial sounds of the word.... turns out that the most beneficial to the person stuck....
Yeah its fun to remember names/words. When the brain makes the connection... feeling like no other.
I don't recall ever having experienced this in such a way that I say the wrong word. I only ever just forget a word completely for a period of time, I don't arrive at wrong versions.
Nice video.
OH MY GOD CAN YOU CALM DOWN DON'T USE THAT LANGUAGE THERE'S CHILDREN HERE WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU DOING JUST CALM DOWN IT'S JUST A VIDEO JEEZ
Just do it. Everything is posible. Do It!
HI EUGENE!!!!
Thanks. I've been doing this all my life more than most people. I always find the words only a few minutes after I needed them.
My dad and I are autistic, and we frequently have trouble finding our words. The polite thing to do for us is to supply a possible word when they're struggling. This both helps along the conversation and shows that you were listening.
My mom on the other hand does not like this social rule. She sees it as I interrupting and putting words in her mouth.
I always forget the word sentimental for some reason. I can only remember it by singing through 'Wicked' in my head (the wizard sings, "I am a sentimental man")
Friend: "Hey dude! What's up?"
Me: "Oh hi. I was just playing... NO! YOU'RE NEVER GOING TO LEARN THAT WAY!!"
Friend: "..."
you eventually do remember the word you were looking for, a week later, at 3 am, when you're trying to sleep and the moment is long past, but now you're so happy it came to you that you can't sleep anymore the rest of the night
I just caught an Abra (pokemon) while you were talking, so I named him after you, Hank. Both are smart and blond, I think it fits. I'll evolve him, I promise.
Hank Green you are the only reason I love science.
This feeling. Goddammit, it's the worst. I get it all the time, multiple times a day, and with words as mundane as washing machine or glove.
""[...] ugly sisters. [...] like Vin Diesel."
-Hank Green
I'll give you props for that :D
I'm especially bad about this when it comes to names, but that's probably only because it's rare for me to use a person's name while I'm talking to them. It becomes harder to make that connection without frequent use.
I had this happen to me at a Christmas light show, I was going to say that it was nostalgic, couldn't remember the word, and then a few weeks later I woke up and I was like: THE WORD WAS NOSTALGIA OMFG I NEED TO GO TELL MY FRIEND!!! (ps, she didn't care.)
Here is a tool tip that works for me most of the time: if you want to remember a word, go audibly through the alphabet. When you reach the correct letter it triggers the memory. It just does not work with words which start with sounds that do not have a corresponded in the alphabet, like "sheet" won't be triggered by an "s", but "street" would.
It's like feeling a sneeze come up, but it then suddenly goes away and you're left with an unsatisfied feeling ("presque éternué"?)
My cat (Barbecue) walked up to me with and looked like she wanted to say something, but couldn't remember. Eventually she left. After about 15 mins, she came back and had this look of confidence as if she figure out the meaning of life. She looks me straight in the eye and said..........damn it I forgot what she said, gimme a sec.
Now I know I'm not stupid; my brain was just taking the scenic route.
I can't help but be impressed about either your greenscreen, chroma key software, animator, or heck... Even all of the above.
The greenscreen is reflecting in the black plastic of his glasses, when you key out the background that tends to leave some nasty scarring of the final image in that area and hard transition lines.
But this just adapts to the background image perfectly with gradient transition. Cool... :O
This info is really useful as I have been doing exactly that with my Dad who has had a few small strokes. It's good to know I'm doing the right thing to help him rebuild his neural pathways again. TY :)
one time i meant to say "Achilles heel" and accidentally said "adam's ankle" instead and years later people still make fun of me for it
0:54 Thanks for the shout-out to Afrikaans! We never get much recognition on teh interwebs :(
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I always have a hard time remembering humus. I had a hard time remembering it just now.
This explains why I get annoyed when someone finishes a word for me if I get stuck stuttering on it.
I thoroughly enjoy this channel
Sometimes when I am listening to a song and I know the lyrics I start singing but I don't remember the name of the song. I know all the lyrics but I don't know what I'm singing, until the name of the song appears in the middle of the song then I realize ohhh thats the song, I love this one lol
Just had this happened.. Pretty sure it's contagious too. Everyone seems to know what I mean but can't find the word either!
I'll finish teacher's sentences for them but it's mostly because I don't want them to think I'm not listening in class.
It works extremely well
I've had multiple of these per day throughout my twenties.
What I learned from this video: never help anyone; it's for their own good.
I try and go around the problem you get from someone telling you the word by spending time after (normally a few minutes) repeating the word over and over again (mostly in my head, but a little bit out load also).
every time I say or think of willy nelsons name, I get dyslexic and get nilly welson.
Every time I need to use the word compensate, complement will keep popping up to my mind. Everytime! It just so happened earlier today.
After i began studying neuroscience/cognitive science 2 months ago these videos makes so much more sense :D
Love that knowy good stuff
Fortunately, my TOTS are almost always about pointless trivia, so somebody else providing the word isn't really hurting my learning ability much. Like, yeah, maybe I'll never learn to remember the name of that actress in "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," but I will probably survive.
There is an astonishing amount of research about this
Hank! You're flipping awesome dude, you adorable man you
Well, thanks, Hank! I will always think of Vin Diesel when Van Gogh is mentioned now.
I used to not get this at all. Maybe once every few months. Then I got my brains bashed in. I went through a phase where the connects were broken for like a quarter of the words, ideas, and concepts I had in a day. It was like swimming through molasses, no amount of thinking or even hints would get me to the answer, but once I managed to provide enough information for someone else to say it the fog would clear and I knew what I was saying again. When I got to one of those brick walls I'd also get stuck per se, I couldn't think of anything else until the path was connected. Now I'm mostly good. I still occasionally hit brick walls where the connections aren't firing properly, but now I can usually figure out a back road to the information I want.
Weird... This just popped up on my facebook feed and I decided I'd watch it, and what do you talk about? The very thing I had a tutorial on earlier today and was very confused about! (It's connectionism, btw.) Thank you, Hank, for helping me out with a topic I was struggling with and didn't even know this video would cover!
Once when I was in college I was trying to think of the actor who was in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein but I just could not remember him name. Fast forward to the next day during my drawing class; everyone is pretty quiet and busy working and I suddenly remember and shout "GENE WILDER!!"
The worst part is when you're asking for help finding the right word, but everybody around you suddenly can't remember it as well.
I'm only 24 and these moments happen to me like ten times a day. I'm not going to be able to say like any words when I'm old.
I've found that thinking of other letters than what the word actually starts with helps. Like if you're trying to think of a word that starts with S you avoid all words that start with S.
What works for me most of the time is to close my eyes and run through the alphabet, visualizing all of the letters of the alphabet, one after the other.
If that doesn't work by giving the answer the first couple of times. I usually end up with a few letters that strike a
chord in my memory. These letters are then displayed in my mind's eye and I then attach letters that are used commonly next to these letters hoping to ring a bell and make a complete word from that. If that doesn't work for that letter I repeat the process with the other letters that came to mind and keep doing that until I get an answer.
The words I have the most problem bringing to mind are those that begin with a vowel.
I spit out a little of my water when that "TOTS" abbreviation came up.
+ThisisNOTCONNECTED TOMYUA-cam Because of Napoleon Dynamite
There are practices that can be done to help with that phenomenon. When I can't immediately retrieve a word while writing, I take a moment, and set up the protocol which is putting my finger tips on either side of my temples and talk to my brain. I don't go looking for the word with the brain, I let it do its thing. I take my hands down from my head and take a deep breath and relax, and within moments the correct word I was looking for pops up.
You can set-up your protocols any way you want, but you must be consistent in your execution. By allowing your brain to do the work you don't interfere with the process of discovery with internal BS dialogue. In actuality you have to get yourself out of the way.
I notice it the most when walking through a doorway
He mentioned Afrikaans, my mother tongue. I am complete
One day I was walking around the streets of Philadelphia, just sightseeing, with my two adult sons. We wanted to get an authentic Philadelphia Cheesesteak, so I was going to ask someone as we passed them on the sidewalk, and I was practicing in my mind, “Excuse me. Can you tell me where we can get a Chil-a-delphia Feeze-steak? ... NO! That’s not right! Feeze-steak! NO!...”. And no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t say Philadelphia Cheesesteak correctly. Laughing, I told my sons. I said it out loud a couple of times and finally got it right. The three of us still chuckling a bit, I correctly asked the next person that we were approaching ~ I said, “Excuse me. Can you tell me where we can get a Philadelphia Cheesesteak?” The person responded by saying, “Chil-a-delphia Feeze-steak?” Honest to god, this is true!
I’ve watched the TERMinator. It was a movie where Arnold Schwarzenegger was sitting in a chair reading a dictionary, then an encyclopedia, hence the TERMinator…
I love how he quoted himself and everything
This happened today when I was talking with my mother about body farms and I wanted to say "They use it to help the police with forensic research", but couldn't remember the word "forensic".
I was like "...research...something research..." my mother suggested "scientific" but I told her "No...it's not that...it's when the police investigate a crime...includes autopsy...they take evidence, DNA samples, fingerprints..." and it was so frustrating. She asked me to just move on but it was so frustrating and I insisted that I knew the word.
Who knew that when you help someone out with the troubled word it is worse for them. I wonder why such a small curious idea about a word stuck on the tip of your tongue has been widely researched since the 1960"s. Being a college student I believe that experiencing a tip of the tongue states once a week and once daily as we age is very true because of all the knowledge crammed into our brains, we sometimes flustered or exhausted from the school work. I found it so funny that the term "ugly sisters" are used to explain the blockers of words.
Probably the best thing when this happens is waiting about and hour and just randomly remembering the word. Then of course just blurting it out.
Might explain why my method of getting past this works so well, which is to go through the alphabet until a letter feels right and then if the word doesn't come to me after that try letters that are likely to follow. So I realise A sounds right and think As, At, An, Ar, AR, ARnold. Works most of the time.
My favorite "tip-of-the-tongue" moment was when a friend was trying to say Posieden a couple years back. She was having difficulty connecting the Greek sea god with his name, and in trying to explain to me who she was talking about, she tried saying "the guy with the trident," but she couldn't connect the word trident with what she was trying to say, either! So she ended up saying, and I quote! "The, the guy with the, the fancy... The fancy pitchfork! The guy with the fancy pitchfork that controls water! POSIEDEN!" I was so proud of her, she signed fork, using ASL, to remind herself of the "fancy pitchfork", then actually connecting fancy pitchforks to the Greek god of the sea.
Blast & Damn! Mom always had me spelling words for her. She was awful about it. 🤣
This happens to me every day with the same word.... As soon as I remember that word, I am going to type it into my phone and save it as my screensaver.
I always have this problem during school.
It's not Van GO; it's more like Van KHOKH. If you gag, you're close, LOL.
That connectionist model thing is really cool.
you just called Vin Diesel an ugly sister :D hahahahahahahaha
I can't live without knowing, I will take hours out of my day to figure out the thing I can't figure out
I wonder if there's a form of memetic contagion when dealing with this. Frequently, when I recruit help trying to remember a word, the other person will also fall afoul of the effect. It's almost as if I'm spreading it when I try to get help.
This happened to me and all I could think was "bam bam" with a swinging motion .... I was looking for a hammer at the time and yes my coworkers didn't let me live it down for a while.