 Other important works by Brown include his 1976 paper on "Flashbulb Memories", concerning people's memories of what they were doing at the time they heard about major traumatic events such as the JFK assassination.The breadth of his interests is seen in the papers reprinted in his 1970 book Psycholinguistics, which includes work with David McNeill on the 'tip of the tongue state, a study with Albert Gilman of the social factors involved in choosing familiar versus polite second-person pronouns ("tu, vous") in languages like French and Spanish, and a review of the novel "Lolita" by Harvard colleague Vladimir Nabokov.Brown was known for the grace with which he treated and referred to his colleagues, whether junior or senior.