?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=What+Feeling+Is+the+%22Feeling+of+Knowing%22%3F&rft.creator=Mangan%2C+Dr+Bruce+B.&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.description=Having+a+word+on+the+tip+of+our+tongue+is+a+mundane+and+slightly+annoying+experi-+ence.+And+yet%2C+as+Brown%E2%80%99s+article+helps+us+see%2C+the+theoretical+implications+of+a+TOT+experience+range+very+widely.+The+study+of+TOTs+may+also+turn+out+to+be+useful+for+larger+methodological+reasons.+Here%2C+too%2C+Brown+recognizes+that+the+investigation+of+TOTs+offers+an+especially+good+example+of+convergent+cognitive+analysis%2C+a+way+to+combine+phenomenology+(e.g.%2C+James%E2%80%99s+treatment+of+the+fringe)+with+more+objective+methods+of+scientific+investigation+such+as+experimental+psychology+and+computer+modeling.+For+what+it+is+worth%2C+I+am+in+complete+agreement+with+Brown%E2%80%99s+general+approach+to+the+TOT+experience.+And+we+also+agree+on+various+specific+points%2C+though+in+some+cases+Brown+does+not+see+this.%0D%0A%0D%0AUnfortunately%2C+Brown+at+times+attributes+to+me+views+that+I+simply+do+not+hold%3B+for+example%2C+that+I+take+the+feeling+of+knowing+to+be+necessarily+veridical+or+that+the+feeling+of+knowing+demands+a+search+of+all+relevant+nonconscious+information.+I+want+to+keep+my+comments+directed+toward+issues+that+are+of+larger+importance+for+the+study+of+consciousness+and+the+fringe+and+not+fuss+about+our+misunderstandings+unless+they+have+wider+cognitive+implications.+For+this+reason+I+focus+on+Brown%E2%80%99s+discussion+in+his+%E2%80%98%E2%80%98Current+Research%E2%80%99%E2%80%99+section+and+the+phenomenology+most+relevant+to+it.%0D%0A%0D%0AI+believe+the+chief+difficulty+with+Brown%E2%80%99s+article+is+that+it+does+not+address+James%E2%80%99s+treatment+of+the+feeling+of+knowing+as+it+operates+in+a+TOT+state.+This+oversight+undercuts+a+good+deal+of+Brown%E2%80%99s+specific+analysis+and+helps+contribute+to+his+misun-+derstanding+of+my+own+proposals+regarding+the+role+of+the+fringe+in+retrieval%2C+monitor-+ing%2C+and+control+and+why%2C+as+a+matter+of+phenomenology%2C+the+feeling+of+knowing+rightly+understood+is+simply+another+term+for+the+experience+of+rightness+(Mangan%2C+1991%2C+1993a%2C+1993b).&rft.publisher=Elsevier&rft.date=2000&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F7586%2F1%2FMangan_2000_FeelingOfKnowing_ConsciousnessAndCognition.pdf&rft.identifier=++Mangan%2C+Dr+Bruce+B.++(2000)+What+Feeling+Is+the+%22Feeling+of+Knowing%22%3F++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F7586%2F