Though often reliable, human memory is also fallible. This article examines how and why
memory can get us into trouble. It is suggested that memory's misdeeds can be classified …

This important book provides a broad, integrated overview of current research on word-
finding deficit, anomia, the most common symptom of language dysfunction occurring after …

A New York Times Notable Book: A psychologist's “gripping and thought-provoking” look at
how and why our brains sometimes fail us (Steven Pinker, author of How the Mind Works). In …

Social concepts such as “tactless” or “honorable” enable us to describe our own as well as
others' social behaviors. The prevailing view is that this abstract social semantic knowledge …

This PET study has revealed the neural system involved in implicit face, proper-name and
object name processing during an explicit visual'same'versus' different'matching task. Within …

Clinton: No. I do have a good memory. At least I have had a good memory in my life... It's
also—if I could say one thing about my memory—I have been blessed and advantaged in …

In this viewpoint, we discuss the new evidence on covert face recognition in prosopagnosia
presented by Bobes et al.(2003, this issue) and by Sperber and Spinnler (2003, this issue) …

Objective: To assess naming and recognition of faces of familiar famous people in patients
with epilepsy before and after anterior temporal lobectomy (ATL). Methods: Color …

Background: The preservation of swearing, serial speech, and speech formulas is well
documented in clinical descriptions of aphasia. Proper nouns and sentence stems have also …

Previous studies have shown that the left temporal polar (TP) region is important for the
retrieval of proper names for persons. It has been proposed that the key specialization of left …