Contents:
A.M. Burton, V. Bruce, Naming Faces and Naming Names: Exploring an Interactive Activation Model of Person Recognition. L. Cipolotti, J. McNeil, E.K. Warrington, Spared Written Naming of Proper Nouns: A Case Report. M. Craigie, J.R. Hanley, Access to Visual Information from a Name is Contingent on Access to Identity Specific Semantic Information. C. Semenza, T.M. Sgaramella, Production of Proper Names: A Clinical Case Study of the Effects of Phonemic Cueing. E.K. Warrington, F. Clegg, Selective Preservation of Place Names in an Aphasic Patient: A Short Report. T. Valentine, V. Moore, B. Flude, A. Young, A. Ellis, Repetition Priming and Proper Name Processing: Do Common Nouns and Proper Names Prime Each Other? T. Brennen, The Difficulty with Recalling People's Names: The Plausible Phonology Hypothesis. S. Bredart, Retrieval Failures in Face Naming. H. Goodglass, A Wingfield, Selective Preservation of a Lexical Category in Aphasia: Dissociation in Comprehension of Body Parts and Geographical Place Names Following Focal Brain Lesion. M. La Palma Reyes, J. Macnamara, G. Reyes, H. Zolfaghari, Proper Names and How They are Learned. J. Brooks, L. Friedman, J. Gibson, J. Yesevage, Spontaneous Mnemonic Strategies Used by Older and Younger Adults to Remember Proper Names.

This volume addresses both the research on language in old age relevant to memory, and memory research relevant to language in old age. In recent years, there has been an upsurge of interest in the aging process as it affects cognition. Most research attention has been focused on memory and relatively little has been focused on language in the elderly. The authors draw on a range of methodologies and compare young and older adults (both normal and demented). Representing the major perspectives in contemporary cognition theory, they raise such current issues as the role of awareness in memory and language, the relation between semantic and episodic memory, the distinction between automatic and attentional processes, and the usefulness of distinguishing among levels of processing. This book will be welcomed not only as an invaluable overview of an active research boundary but as an impetus to further theoretical development and empirical work.

In recent years, there has been an upsurge of interest in the aging process as it affects cognition. Most research attention has been focused on memory and relatively little has been focused on language in the elderly. This volume addresses both the research on language in old age relevant to memory, and memory research relevant to language in old age. The authors draw on a range of methodologies and compare young and older adults (both normal and demented). Representing the major perspectives in contemporary cognition theory, they raise such current issues as the role of awareness in memory and language, the relation between semantic and episodic memory, the distinction between automatic and attentional processes, and the usefulness of distinguishing among levels of processing. The book will be welcomed not only as an invaluable overview for cognitive and developmental psychologists, neuropsychologists and psycholinguists but also as a supplementary text for graduate students in cognitive science and gerontology.