Strategies to improve name learning: A review

Brédart, Serge

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Strategies to improve name learning: A review

Brédart, Serge

2019 • In European Psychologist, 24 (4), p. 349-358

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proper names; memory; ageing

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[en] The following points emerge from the present review of strategies to improve the learning of proper names: (a) Face-name mnemonic techniques based on mental imagery have been shown to be efficient in laboratory settings in both young and older adults. Unfortunately, they are particularly effortful and require capacity for imagination, making them difficult to apply in a real conversational context. (b) Strategies based on spaced retrieval practice have been found to be efficient both in laboratory and more ecological settings, and both in young and older adults. (c) Techniques based on spaced retrieval practice appear to be more efficient than those based on mental imagery. (d) More recent research has proposed new perspectives, such as basing learning strategies on implicit, rather than explicit, memory processes such as hyper-binding. Finally, neuroscience research has started to investigate the possibility of using non-invasive electrical brain stimulation to improve name learning.

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PsyNCog - Psychologie et Neuroscience Cognitives - ULiège

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Theoretical & cognitive psychology

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Brédart, Serge ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de Psychologie > Psychologie cognitive

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English

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Strategies to improve name learning: A review

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2019

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European Psychologist

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1016-9040

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1878-531X

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Hogrefe & Huber Publishers, United States

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349-358

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