Proper names are an important part of language and communication. They are thought to
have a special status due to their neuropsychological and psycholinguistic profile. To what …

The present chapter reviews the body of knowledge acquired so far about the role of the
temporal lobe in representing and processing proper names and individual identity …

Proper names are linguistic expressions referring to unique entities, such as individual
people or places. This sets them apart from other words like common nouns, which refer to …

The way our brain processes personal familiarity is still debatable. We used searchlight
multivoxel pattern analysis (MVPA) to identify areas where local fMRI patterns could …

This event-related potentials (ERPs) study investigated online processes of integration of
information relating to characters in narrative comprehension. The final sample included …

As neuroscience literature suggests, extreme capsule is considered a whiter matter tract.
Nevertheless, it is not clear whether extreme capsule itself is an association fiber pathway or …

Knowledge about personally familiar people and places is extremely rich and varied,
involving pieces of semantic information connected in unpredictable ways through past …

Difficulty retrieving proper names is common in older adults, coinciding with the
accumulation of aggregated proteins in mid‐life. We investigated the ability of healthy older …

In this study, we investigated whether there were differences between the processing of
Chinese proper nouns and common nouns in the left and that in the right hemispheres of the …

Objective: To assess the role of cognitive reserve, age, gender and brain structure in proper
name retrieval in advanced age. Method: Performance in 2 naming tasks (asking for proper …