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hardware

handsonic. su10. uc33. alphajuno. sp808. mc303. eggshaker. ukelele. rumpshaker.

software

live. flstudio. reaktor. ixi toys. kontakt. fm7. every free vst and vsti listed at kvr. stomper. sound forge. acid. ozone3 demo. hex editor. absynth. granulab. coagula. randomdotorg.

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location	Littleton, Colorado, USA

info	A snippet of a name comes to mind, but only that much. No amount of concentration can bring the word from the tip of the tongue to where it would be more useful. Until hours later, maybe, when the forgotten word pops up, seemingly out of the blue. The puzzle is solved--but did it solve itself? Tip-of-the-tongue experiences, or TOTs, are among the more irritating of everyday nuisances. For the young, the nagging feeling of knowing a name or word but not being able to retrieve it can be frustrating, inconvenient and occasionally embarrassing. For older adults, who tend to have them more frequently, TOTs can seem disturbingly--if mistakenly--like early signs of dementia. In the TOT state, people can access semantic, or conceptual, information about a word, but they can't access enough phonological information to pronounce the word. Psychologists know that TOTs arise from deficits in the phonological system, the level of the language production system at which word sounds are represented. But the specific nature of the problem has remained uncertain.

nick origin	thingamajig. doohickey. whatsitcalled.

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