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  2. Anomic aphasia - Wikipedia

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    Anomic aphasia, also known as dysnomia, nominal aphasia, and amnesic aphasia, is a mild, fluent type of aphasia where individuals have word retrieval failures and cannot express the words they want to say (particularly nouns and verbs). [1]

  3. Tip of the tongue - Wikipedia

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    William James was the first psychologist to describe the tip of the tongue phenomenon, although he did not label it as such. The term "tip of the tongue" is borrowed from colloquial usage, [2] and possibly a calque from the French phrase avoir le mot sur le bout de la langue ("having the word on the tip of the tongue").

  4. Memory inhibition - Wikipedia

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    The scientific concept of memory inhibition should not be confused with everyday uses of the word "inhibition". Scientifically speaking, memory inhibition is a type of cognitive inhibition , which is the stopping or overriding of a mental process, in whole or in part, with or without intention.

  5. Selective amnesia - Wikipedia

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    Selective amnesia is a type of amnesia in which the sufferer loses only certain parts of their memory.Common elements that may be forgotten are relationships, where they live, and certain special abilities and talents (e.g., juggling, whistling, instrumental talents, etc.).

  6. Amnesia - Wikipedia

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    Amnesia is a deficit in memory caused by brain damage or brain diseases, [1] but it can also be temporarily caused by the use of various sedative and hypnotic drugs. The memory can be either wholly or partially lost due to the extent of damage that is caused.

  7. Source amnesia - Wikipedia

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    Individuals with frontal lobe damage have deficits in temporal context memory; [6] source memory can also exhibit deficits in those with frontal lobe damage. [7] It appears that those with frontal lobe damage have difficulties with recency and other temporal judgements (e.g., placing events in the order they occurred), [8] and as such they are unable to properly attribute their knowledge to ...

  8. ‘Blueprint Planet’ by Huffington Post

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    That money needs to be spent on clean energy, not on making dirty fuel cheaper. Lastly, investors must change what they put their money behind. If the world's institutional investors moved just 5 percent of their portfolios to green energy, it would mean an extra $450 billion a year going toward those efforts.

  9. Memory and retention in learning - Wikipedia

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    Types of Long-term Memory. Long-term memory is the site for which information such as facts, physical skills and abilities, procedures and semantic material are stored. Long-term memory is important for the retention of learned information, allowing for a genuine understanding and meaning of ideas and concepts. [6]