The familiarity of names produced by their prior presentation can be misinterpreted as fame. We used this false fame effect to separately study the effects of divided attention on familiarity versus conscious recollection. In a first experiment, famous and nonfamous names were presented to be read under conditions of full vs. divided attention. Divided attention greatly reduced later recognitio...

Thanks to the increased percentage of mobile phone ownership and wireless Internet access, our engagement with media has become more and more mobile. We commonly see people using their cell-phones when they are walking on the street, riding on a bus, or even driving in a car. However, we don't know whether or not, and how movements influence people's psychological responses towards stimuli view...

Previous neuroimaging studies examining recognition of famous faces have identified activation of an extensive bilateral neural network [Gorno Tempini, M. L., Price, C. J., Josephs, O., Vandenberghe, R., Cappa, S. F., Kapur, N. et al. (1998). The neural systems sustaining face and proper-name processing. Brain, 121, 2103-2118], including the medial temporal lobe (MTL) and specifically the hippo...

fictional names have been one of the most important and serious topics in the contemporary philosophy of language and metaphysics.several questions such as “do fictional names refer to any objects?” “are fictional characters existent objects?” have resulted in a considerable literature of philosophy. in this essay, we will follow two objectives. first we will describe and elaborate the ideas ...

a place-name or a toponym is a word used to indicate, denote or identify a geographic locality. place-names are formed in the course of history of a region and are affected by various linguistic, social, political and cultural events. toponymy is the taxonomic study of place-names, based on etymological, historical and geographical information. this paper first defines toponym and topnymy and i...

Forwarding information base (FIB) scalability is a fundamental problem of numerous new network architectures that propose to use location-independent network names. We propose Concise, a FIB design that uses very little memory to support fast query of a large number of location-independent names. Concise makes use of minimal perfect hashing and relies on the SDN framework and supports fast name...

To evaluate the extent to which amnesic patients can attribute the source of familiarity to its correct source during a fame judgment task, we placed gains in familiarity in opposition to conscious recollection. In a first experiment, patients and controls were told specifically that nonfamous names presented just prior to a fame judgment task were not famous; in a second experiment they were t...