Why are some people's names easier to learn than others? The effects of face similarity on memory for face-name associations

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1182-1195

  Pantelis, Peter C ^a   Van Vugt, Marieke K ^a   Sekuler, Robert ^b   Wilson, Hugh R ^c   Kahana, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; CONFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; RECALL; RECOGNITION; STIMULATION;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FACE; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; NAMES; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; SET (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 54949088969     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.36.6.1182     Document Type: Article

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