system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
What is occurring in your brain when you forget the word you need to use, but "have it on the tip of your tongue"?
gpt
Tip of the tongue phenomenon. It happens because your brain controls retrieval of past information. Sometimes, signals get confused, and your brain retrieves the incorrect information. At some level of processing, you recognize this is incorrect. But your brain, in some way, 'insists' that that is the right information. So you are unable to call it up. If you wait a minute (until you have stopped trying to recall that information) you will be able to bring it up. Source? Years of neuropsychology.