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Memory for proper names: A review

1993; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 1; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/09658219308258237

1464-0686

Gillian Cohen, Deborah M. Burke,

Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare

Abstract Proper names have a frustrating propensity to be forgotten. A considerable amount of laboratory and naturalistic data has demonstrated this vulnerability of proper names to memory errors both in learning new names and in retrieving familiar names. Moreover, retrieval of familiar proper names is especially affected in old age and in some cases of aphasia. This pattern of vulnerability offers an important opportunity for gaining insight into basic memory processes and architecture by identifying the characteristics of proper names that disrupt memory.