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Naming famous faces and buildings.

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  • 1Department of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom. m.milders@abdn.ac.uk

Cortex; a Journal Devoted to the Study of the Nervous System and Behavior
|March 23, 2000
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This study found that retrieving people's names and building names are equally difficult for individuals with brain injuries. Proper name retrieval, regardless of category, is vulnerable to neurological damage.

Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Linguistics

Background:

  • Dissociations in proper name retrieval suggest separate brain mechanisms for different name categories.
  • Geographical names may be spared due to ease of retrieval or adjectival use, but this doesn't explain spared building names.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if retrieving people's names is as difficult as retrieving building names.
  • To determine the vulnerability of different proper name categories to brain injury.

Main Methods:

  • Comparative analysis of retrieval performance in normal subjects and closed-head injured patients.
  • Assessment of retrieval difficulty for people's names versus building names.

Main Results:

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  • No significant difference was found in the retrieval of people's names and building names.
  • Both categories of proper names demonstrated equal vulnerability to brain injury.

    • Conclusions:

    • The findings challenge the notion of separate brain mechanisms for different proper name categories.
    • Proper name anomia may affect various categories of proper names equally, indicating shared neural vulnerabilities.