Why Your Brain Forgets Words You Actually Know

You’re in the middle of a sentence, everything is going well, and then—nothing. A word you’ve used a hundred times simply disappears. You know you know it, but you just can't say it.

In this episode, Diego welcomes back Brenda Richards, an ESL teacher and neuroscience enthusiast from the UK, to discuss the "universal" experience of the mental blackout. We move past the frustration to look at what is actually happening in your cognitive system when a word stays on the tip of your tongue.

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