Putting names to faces: A review and tests of the models

Pragmatics and Cognition

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 9-62

  Carson, Derek R ^a   Burton, A Mike ^b   Bruton, Vicki ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERTAY DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84989366131     PISSN: 09290907     EISSN: 15699943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/pc.8.1.03car     Document Type: Article

References (60)

1. Bartram, D. J. 1973. “The effects of familiarity and practice on naming pictures of objects”. Memory and Cognition 1(2): 101-105.
2. Bredart, S. 1993. “Retrieval failures in face naming”. Memory 1: 351-356.
3. Bredart, S. and Valentine, T. 1992. “An analysis of face naming errors”. Cognition 45: 187-223.
4. Bredart, S., Valentine, T., Calder, A., and Gassi, L. 1995. “An interactive activation model of face naming”. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 48A(2): 466-486.
5. Brennen, T. 1993. “The difficulty with recalling people’s names: The plausible phonology hypothesis”. Memory 1(4): 249-288.
6. Brennen, T., Baguley, T., Bright, J., and Bruce, V. 1990. “Resolving semantically induced tip-of-the-tongue states for proper nouns”. Memory and Cognition 18: 339-347.
7. Brennen, T., David, D., Fluchaire, I., and Pellat, J. 1996. “Naming faces and objects without comprehension — a case study”. Cognitive Neuropsychology 13(1): 93-110.
8. Brooks III J. O., Friedman, L., Gibson, J. M., and Yesevage, J. A. 1993. “Spontaneous mnemonic strategies used by older and younger adults to remember proper names”. Memory 1(4): 393-407.
9. Brown, R. and McNeill, D. 1966. “The ‘tip of the tongue’ phenomenon. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behaviour 5: 325-337.
10. Brown, W. 1915. “Practice in associating colour names with colours”. Psychological Review 22: 45-55.
11. Bruce, V., Burton, A. M., and Walker, S. 1994. “Testing the models? New data and commentary on Stanhope and Cohen (1993)”. British Journal of Psychology 85: 335-349.
12. Bruce, V. and Young, A. W. 1986. “Understanding face recognition”. British Journal of Psychology 77: 305-327.
13. Burke, D. M., Mackay, D. G., Worthley, J. S., and Wade, E. 1991. “On the tip-of-the-tongue: What causes word finding failures in young and old adults”. Journal of Memory and Language 30: 542-579.
14. Burton, A. M. and Bruce, V. 1992. “I recognise your face but I can’t remember your name: A simple explanation?” British Journal of Psychology 83: 45-60.
15. Burton, A. M. and Bruce, V.1993. “Naming faces and naming names: Exploring an interactive activation model of person recognition”. Memory 1(4): 457-480.
16. Burton, A. M., Bruce, V, and Johnston, R. A. 1990. “Understanding face recognition with an interactive activation model”. British Journal of Psychology 81: 361-380.
17. Cipolotti, L., McNeil, J.E., and Warrington, E.K. 1993. “Spared written name of proper names: A case report”. Memory 1: 289-311.
18. Cohen, G. 1990a. “Why is it difficult to put names to faces?” British Journal of Psychology 81: 361-381.
19. Cohen, G. 1990b. “Recognition and retrieval of proper names: Age differences in the fan effect”. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology 2: 192-204.
20. Cohen, G. and Burke, D. M. 1993. “Memory for proper names: A review”. Memory 1(4): 249-263.
21. Cohen, G., and Faulkner, D. 1986. “Memory for proper names: Age differences in retrieval”. British Journal of Developmental Psychology 4: 187-197.
22. Craigie, M. and Hanley, J. R. 1993. “Access to visual information about a face is contingent on access to identity specific semantic information”. Memory 1: 367-391.
23. Ellis, H. D. 1986. “Processes underlying face recognition”. In R. Bruyer (ed.), The Neuropsychology of Face Perception and Facial Expression. Hillsdale, N. J.: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1-27.
24. Fery, P., Vincent, E. and Bredart, S. 1995. “Personal name anomia: A single case study”. Cortex 31: 191-198.
25. Flude, B. M., Ellis, A. W., and Kay, J. 1989. “Face processing and name retrieval in an anomic aphasic: Names are stored separately from semantic information concerning familiar people”. Brain and Cognition 11: 60-72.
26. Fraisse, P. (1969). “Why is naming longer than reading?” Acta Psychologica 30: 96-103.
27. Francis, W. N. and Kufera, H. 1982. Frequency Analysis of English usage: Lexicon and grammar. Boston: Houhghton Mifflin.
28. Grossberg, S. 1978. “A theory of visual coding, memory and development”. In E. L.J. Leeuwenberg and H. F. J. M. Buffart (eds), Formal Theories of Visual Perception. New York: Wiley.
29. Hanley, J. R. 1995. “Are names difficult to recall because they are unique? A case study of a patient with anomia”. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology48A(2): 487-506.
30. Hanley, J. R. and Cowell, E. S. 1988. “The effects of different types of retrieval cues on the recall of names of famous faces”. Memory and Cognition 16(6): 545-555.
31. Hanley, J. R. and Kay, J. 1998. “Proper name anomia and anomia for the names of people: Functionally dissociable impairments?” Cortex 34: 155-158.
32. Harris, D. M., and Kay, J. 1995. “I recognise your face but I can’t remember your name: Is it because names are unique?” British Journal of Psychology 86(3): 345-359.
33. Hay, D. C. and Young, A. W. 1982. “The human face”. In A. W. Ellis (ed) Normality and Pathology in Cognitive Functions. London: Academic Press, 173-202.
34. Heilman, K. M., Tucker, D. M., and Valenstein, E. 1976. “A case of mixed transcortical aphasia with intact naming”. Brain 99: 415-426.
35. Humphreys, G., Riddoch, M. J., and Quinlan, P. T. 1988. “Cascade processes in picture identification”. Cognitive Neuropsychology 5: 67-103.
36. Johnston, R. A. 1991. Accessing Information About IndividualIdentity. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Nottingham.
37. Johnston, R. A., and Bruce, V. 1990. “Lost properties? Retrieval differences between name codes and semantic codes for familiar people”. Psychological Research 52: 62-68.
38. Kripke, S. 1980. Naming and Necessity. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
39. Lucchelli, F. and de Renzi, E. 1992. “Proper name anomia”. Cortex 28: 221-230.
40. McClelland, J. L. 1981. “Retrieving general and specific information from stored knowledge of specifics”. Proceedings of the Third Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 170-172.
41. McWeeny, K. H., Young, A. W., Hay, D. C., and Ellis, A. W. 1987. “Putting names to faces”. British Journal ofPsychology 78: 143-149.
42. Monsell, S., Doyle, M. C., and Haggard, P.N. 1989. “Effects of frequency on word recognition tasks: Where are they?” Journal of Experimental Psychology, General118: 43-71.
43. Morrison, C. M., Ellis, A. W. and Quinlan, P. T. 1992. “Age of acquisition, not word frequency, affects object naming not object identification”. Memory and Cognition 20: 705-714.
44. Nelson, D. L., Canas, J. J., and Bajo, M. T. 1987. “The effect of natural category size on memory for episodic encodings”. Memory and Cognition 15: 133 -140.
45. Nelson, D. L., McEvoy, C. L. and Schreiber, T. A. 1990. “Encoding context and retrieval conditions as determinants of the effects of natural category size”. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition 16: 31-41.
46. Reason, J. T. and Lucas, D. 1984. “Using cognitive diaries to investigate naturally occurring memory blocks”. In J. E. Harris and P. E. Morris (eds), Everyday Memory, Actions and Absentmindedness. London: Academic Press.
47. Saffran, E. M., Bogyo, L. C., Schwarz, M. F., and Martin, O. S. M. 1980. “Does deep dyslexia reflect right hemisphere reading?”. In M. Coltheart, K. Patterson, and J. C. Marshall (eds), Deep Dyslexia. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
48. Scarborough, D. L., Cortese, C., and Scarborough, H. S. 1977. “Frequency and repetition effects in a lexical memory”. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 3: 1-17.
49. Semenza, C. and Zettin, M. 1988. “Generating proper names: A case of selective inability”. Cognitive Neuropsychology 5: 711-721.
50. Semenza, C. and Zettin, M. 1989. “Evidence from aphasia for the role of proper names as pure referring expressions”. Nature 342: 678-679.
51. Stanhope, N. and Cohen, G. 1993. “Retrieval of proper names: testing the models”. British Journal of Psychology 84: 51-65.
52. Valentine, T., Bredart, S., Lawson, R., and Ward, G. 1991. “What’s in an name? Access to information from people’s names”. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology 3: 147-176.
53. Valentine, T. and Moore, V. 1995. “Naming familiar faces: The effects of facial distinctiveness and surname frequency”. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 48A(3): 513-535.
54. Valentine, T., Moore, V. Flude, B., Young, A. W., and Ellis, A. 1993. “Repetition priming and proper name processing”. Memory 1: 329-349.
55. Williams, M. and Smith, H. V.1954. “Mental disturbances in tuberculous meningitis”. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry 17: 173-182.
56. Yarmey, A. D. 1973. “I recognise your face but I can’t remember your name: Further evidence on the tip of the tongue phenomenon”. Memory and Cognition 1: 287-290.
57. Young, A. W., Ellis, A. W., and Flude, B. 1988. “Accessing stored information about familiar people”. Psychological Research 50: 111-115.
58. Young, A. W., Hay, D. C., and Ellis, A. W. 1985. “The faces that launched a thousand slips: Everyday difficulties and errors in recognising people”. British Journal of Psychology 76: 495-523.
59. Young, A. W., McWeeny, K. H., Ellis, A. W., and Hay, D. C. 1986. “Naming and categorising faces and written names”. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 38A: 297-318.
60. Young, A. W., McWeeny, K. H., Hay, D. C., and Ellis, A. W. 1986. “Access to identity-specific semantic codes from familiar faces”. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 38A: 271-295.