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You all know the situation described in the title. You forgot something and start to search your memory and then after quite a while it jumps right in front of you, out of nowhere.

My questions are:

  1. What happens in the brain during that moment of awareness?
  2. Is it different from when we know something right away, since the subconscious mind is working for quite a while to produce the answer?
  3. Is it possible to measure this moment and was it done already?
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    $\begingroup$ This Question is similar to cogsci.stackexchange.com/q/1/421 . $\endgroup$
    – John Pick
    May 30, 2012 at 21:03
  • $\begingroup$ Not sure all 3 questions should be asked in one question...I think some are a lot deeper than you might realize. $\endgroup$
    – Ben Brocka
    May 31, 2012 at 2:06
  • $\begingroup$ This is also almost the same as this question $\endgroup$
    – Artem Kaznatcheev
    Jul 26, 2012 at 0:27

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You'll want to look up literature on the "Tip of the Tongue" (TOT) phenomenon. It's been studied since the 60s I believe and can be experimentally reproduced.

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