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The Cognitive Psychology of Proper Names: On the Importance of Being Ernest
The Cognitive Psychology of Proper Names On the Importance of Being Ernest Author:Tim Valentine, Tim Brennen, Serge Bredart The Cognitive Psychology of Proper Names uses evidence from cognitive psychology and neuropsychology to explore, for example, why some brain-damaged individuals can only name countries, while others are normal except they can't name fruit and vegetables.Tim Valentine, Tim Brennen and Serge Bredart examine current thinking on the creation and ret... more »rieval of proper names. They draw on evidence from speech production, face recognition and word recognition to develop a new model of the production and recognition of people's names. This book will appeal to researchers and students interested in the cognitive/psychological and neurpsychological aspects of picture naming, face recognition, speech production and word recognition.« less