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Personal Library Collections of Famous Personalities: A Review
Pearl : A Journal of Library and Information Science, 2019Paper narrates the organization and maintenance of personal library collections of the popular scholars and book lovers in India, Europe and the United States of America. Also highlights the type of furniture used to shelve the books and reference collections, including the method of retrieval of books and other library sources.
R. Jerry Arokyamary, N. Raghavendra
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An Analysis of Famous Person Semantic Memory in Aging
Experimental Aging Research, 2019In contrast to most memory systems that decline with age, semantic memory tends to remain relatively stable across the life span. However, what exactly is stable remains unclear. Is it the quantity of information available or the organization of semantic memory, i.e., the connections between semantic items?
Pistono, Aurélie +6 more
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Medical Reference Services Quarterly, 1998
Abstract The “famous persons” Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) provides a unique perspective on the medical literature indexed in the MEDLINE database. A total of 3,745 MEDLINE citations indexed with the term “famous persons” from 1966 through 1994 were examined.
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Abstract The “famous persons” Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) provides a unique perspective on the medical literature indexed in the MEDLINE database. A total of 3,745 MEDLINE citations indexed with the term “famous persons” from 1966 through 1994 were examined.
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Famous people recognition through personal name: a normative study
Neurological Sciences, 2018In this normative study, we investigated famous people recognition through personal name, using as stimuli the names of the same 40 Italian famous persons whose faces and voices had been utilized for the normative study of the Famous People Recognition Battery.
Piccininni, Chiara +8 more
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Cultural bias in Wikipedia content on famous persons
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2011AbstractWikipedia advocates a strict “neutral point of view” (NPOV) policy. However, although originally a U.S‐based, English‐language phenomenon, the online, user‐created encyclopedia now has versions in many languages. This study examines the extent to which content and perspectives vary across cultures by comparing articles about famous persons in ...
Ewa S. Callahan, Susan C. Herring
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Familiarity with non-famous faces increases “person misidentification”
Quarterly Journal of Experimental PsychologyPeople sometimes mistakenly identify an unknown person they encounter as a known person. Previous studies have elucidated this phenomenon and revealed that it is a common experience. However, no experimental study has identified factors associated with its occurrence. We termed this relatively under-examined phenomenon as “person misidentification” and
Daisuke Shimane +2 more
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2008
Famous persons develop illnesses, just like the rest of us, and when they do, what happens may affect the lives of many. This chapter looks at some persons with familiar names who had diseases such as gout, agoraphobia, depression, epilepsy, Alzheimer disease, and more—and the effect these illnesses had on others.
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Famous persons develop illnesses, just like the rest of us, and when they do, what happens may affect the lives of many. This chapter looks at some persons with familiar names who had diseases such as gout, agoraphobia, depression, epilepsy, Alzheimer disease, and more—and the effect these illnesses had on others.
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Comprehension of Famous Personal and Geographical Names in Global Aphasic Subjects
Brain and Language, 1998This experiment compared comprehension of famous personal and geographical names with that of common nouns in three groups of severe aphasic subjects across three modalities. Results revealed that the global aphasic group comprehended famous personal names significantly better than they did common nouns and were better in the reading comprehension ...
K, Yasuda, Y, Ono
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Famous personal names and the right hemisphere: the link keeps missing
Brain and Language, 2002In this reply to the comment by VanLancker and Ohnesorge (2002), we present the case that current evidence supports the role of left hemisphere in the recognition of famous personal names. We argue that this conclusion is in line not only with the results of Schweinberger, Landgrebe, Mohr, and Kaufmann (2002), but also with the evidence from methods ...
Stefan R, Schweinberger +2 more
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Some Correlations between Famous Sayings Test and Eysenck Personality Inventory Variables
Psychological Reports, 1977Scores of 11 male and 21 female college students on the Hostility and Social Acquiescence subscales of the Famous Sayings Test correlated significantly and positively with Eysenck's Neuroticism factor.
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