Children and adults recall the names of highly familiar faces faster than semantic information.
Adults find it harder to remember the names of familiar people than other biographical information such as occupation or nationality. It has been suggested that the opposite effect occurs in children (Scanlan & Johnston, 1997). We failed to replicate the effects found by Scanlan and Johnston and ins...
| Published in: | British Journal of Psychology Vol. 97; no. 4; pp. 441 - 455 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
November 2006
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