European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 14, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Science it to Malcolm Ritter the associated press a. Csc archers arc taking a closer look it life s most irksome a Peri. A fences when words arid names get. Stuck on the tip of your. Us a. Uni. You know. \ you re certain you know that blasted word but you just can t get a Good grip on it. You re going through what has been called a mild torment a something like the Brink of psychologists Call it a Tot a tip Olathe Loh Guc experience and although they have gained some insight into this mental glitch they arc still debating what causes it. -.v, athe researchers Hope to accomplish More than explaining Why you can t quite recall your College buddy a name at a reunion. \ a one of the intriguing aspects is that it May shed some Light into How the retrieval process works and How information is stored in memory a said researcher Alari Brown a associate professor of psychology at Southern methodist u nicer sity in Dallas. A a a a. A tots May give clues about More severe Ian Guage difficulties such As those seen after strokes he said. A Quot Quot a i think it s one of the most important memory problem that occur More frequently As we age a said psychologist Deborah Burke of porno a College in Claremont calif., whose Tot research is financed by the National Institute tin a a people Are afraid when this happens a she said a and they this As a sign that they re really losing it.�?�. A a a. In fact she said older people should not be upset if they get tots with infrequently used words or names of people they Haven t seen in a few years. More serious is being unable to name a such As a spoon she said she and Brown have recently noticed greater scientific interest in the neglected Field of tots. Brown attributes this in part to new emphasis Oil the psychology of aging. A v a in the March Issue of the journal psychological bulletin Brown said studies have provided some answers to the Tot Puzzle a just about everybody has them including elementary school children. Younger adults say they get them once or twice a week and older adults typically count two to four. These numbers arc probably underestimates because Many instances arc Likely forgotten Provyn said. A. Tots Are triggered most frequently by names of acquaintances followed by names of objects and famous people. Or at least that a what peo Pic say. Quot. A a. Y. ? /. A ,. Brown cautioned however hat people May be. Especially Ricly to rement bar tots involving no Quain Tancos. After All if you can t think of a act i onious a you can quickly switch to a a caustic a and forget the memory Block. But if you can to think of aunt Sadie s name As you struggle id introduce her there a no substitute. And you la re member that Tot. A a about half the time people find 1 he won they want within a mute. A a some 40 percent to 7tl percent of Tho time. -. People think of a word that is related to the word they want. Usually it sounds the shameless often. It has a similar meaning. A a a people in tie throes of a Tot Eon Kelly guess the first letter of the word they want at least Hal the time and they can often guess the last letter. A a a a no the Folk Wisdom that the missing word can pop up out of the Blue when you re thinking of something else was a your .unconscious1 mind to search for a the word or Are you simply responding to soothe a Subtle and easily forgot e 11 Cue inthe pm Iron. Merit or . Pomona College s Luuke said a Man suddenly recalled the name of the California Tow n of Ojai. a Ubhi after Sutteriii Fec . She added there May be some sort of �?oin.--. Cuba lion effect a like that reported by mathematicians who take a stroll and solve a. Tough problem. Whether it requires a Cue is not a Clear she said. A a. A a v a a the Basic unresolved question is what causes. Tots. Nobody claims to know w hat goes w Rong physically in the brain. Instead the debate ecu ters on More abstract descriptions of mental ,. Processing. A a. T Buike and her colleagues Pian to publish a Hyu Pool Icsis this year that blame s tots on a failure. In the Way tie brain collects information to produce a word. / a Quot a a a Quot. A / the idea grew out of an earlier theory holding that scraps of information about the sound of a word Are stored in different places in the brain. Network. Normally to produce a word the brain. Activates All those places and then assembles the sound scraps. Yvo a tots occur when this process falters Burke suggested. A a a v Brown however said lie is More interested in an older explanation that to i s occur when the brains search fur a word ends up with an incorrect but similar answer this wrong word them diverts the brains attention front the right an so la it t y for now the be search is finding Only hints. About How memory works leaving Brown w Ith a feeling familiar to anybody in a Tot.?, 7 Quot its almost a tease a he said a and that keeps. You a Greece peloponnese ionian 6�?o in a meters a i win la m s More tos amps arrows show land movements in Greece which Range up to 2 meters or a Little More than 6 feet. Recce is grow ing. Using navigational sat lilies to measure of 15 monuments in a Century of triangulation network British and. Greek scientists have found that a. Southern Greece has stretched Niobe than three feet North to South since the original Survey was made in 1890. A a. Greece a Southern Peninsula the peloponnese appears to have moved Southwest relative to the greek Mainland to the North. The positions of the monuments in relation to one another were originally determined by triangulation a measurement process that divides up a Large area into a series of connecting triangles. Lacking the precise measurements made possible by satellites however the Overall position and orientation of the network was not determined from measurements of magnetism in ancient rocks it has been estimated that there has been rotation in the last few million1. Years. A y. ? the stretching of Greece had been ant in impaled As a result Tif pressure from a slab of Ocean floor. Being pushed under that country by the North. Ward drive of Africa. Regional earthquake slippages during the Iasi Century account for about of a percent of the stretching with the rest being in the form of slow deformation. Much earthquake activity has been in the Gulf of Ouinto Between the two main bodies of Greece and the seismically Active Region North pro it. Of earthquakes Are to so common in the Gulf Between the Aegean Island of fun inca and the Mainland. Thus the deformation seems concentrated in a Lew narrow zones separating blocks to Lute Are Only slowly being deformed the scientists reported in the current Issue of nature. The 14 authors were from live British universities and one greek one. A till new York. Tami s april 14 1991 sunday a
