Sökning: "familiarity with names"
Hittade 4 avhandlingar innehållade orden familiarity with names.
1. I gatuplanet. Namnbrukarperspektiv på gatunamn i Stockholm
Sammanfattning : The purpose of this thesis is to apply a name user perspective to the street names of Stockholm, with a focus on knowledge and views about names among the city’s inhabitants. On the basis of interview surveys, a picture is presented of the knowledge and views of Stockholmers regarding their city’s street names and the semantic or thematic name categories to which many of them belong; that is, the study seeks to identify general features of the ways in which the people of the city relate to their street names. LÄS MER
2. Prior Knowledge and Recognition Memory : a Computational Modeling Approach
Sammanfattning : For more than a century, an immense interest has been devoted to the study of recognition memory, where a multitude of memory phenomena has been explained. Recognition memory is usually described with parsimonious measurement and statistical models, stemming from dual process theory and signal detection theory. LÄS MER
3. Olfactory Metacognition : A Metamemory Perspective on Odor Naming
Sammanfattning : Although many aspects of odor naming have received attention during the years, the participants' own cognitions (metamemory) about their naming attempts have not. (i) We showed that feeling of knowing (FOK) judgments accompanying odor naming failures are predictive of later recognition (Study I) or retrieval (Study III) of the missing name, but to a lesser degree than equivalent judgments about names of persons. LÄS MER
4. Odor and source remembering in adulthood and aging : influences of semantic activation and item richness
Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this doctoral thesis was to investigate episodic memory in early and late adulthood. Of particular interest was to examine whether older adults could make use of different forms of cognitive support in order to improve episodic memory performance. LÄS MER