Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Approaches to proper names; Cognitive properties of proper names; Cognitive models of familiar face recognition and naming; The recognition of proper names; The retrieval of proper names and common names; Lexical access in the production of proper names; Comparisons between lexical access for proper names and common names; Integrating the issues: a framework for name, face, word and object recognition; Bibliography; Name index; Subject index
Summary
Using an information processing approach, the authors consider evidence from speech production, face recognition and word recognition to develop a new functional model of the production and recognition of people's names