Using an information processing approach, the authors consider evidence from speech production, face recognition and word recognition to develop a new functional model of the production and recognition of people's names.

Serge Bredart, Tim Brennen, Tim Valentine

List of illustrations, Preface, 1. Approaches to proper names, 2. Cognitive properties of proper names, 3. Cognitive models of familiar face recognition and naming, 4. The recognition of proper names, 5. The retrieval of proper names and common names, 6. Lexical access in the production of proper names, 7. Comparisons between lexical access for proper names and common names, 8. Integrating the issues: a framework for name, face, word and object recognition, Bibliography, Name index, Subject index