1st Edition
The Cognitive Psychology of Proper Names
226 Pages
by
Routledge
226 Pages
by
Routledge
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It's on the tip of my tongue, but I can't remember her name." Lots of people have difficulty remembering people's names, even though they can easily recall other information about the person. As memory and retrieval processes are central to cognitive psychology and neuropsychology the study of proper names makes a fascinating and practical focus of study. Using an information processing approach,... Read more
List of illustrations, Preface, 1. Approaches to proper names, 2. Cognitive properties of proper names, 3. Cognitive models of familiar face recognition and naming, 4. The recognition of proper names, 5. The retrieval of proper names and common names, 6. Lexical access in the production of proper names, 7. Comparisons between lexical access for proper names and common names, 8. Integrating the issues: a framework for name, face, word and object recognition, Bibliography, Name index, Subject index
Biography
Serge Bredart, Tim Brennen, Tim Valentine
