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Names and their meanings: A dual-process account of proper-name encoding and retrieval

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The ability to pick out a unique entity with a proper name is an important component of human language. It has been a primary focus of research in the philosophy of language since the nineteenth century. Brain-based evidence has shed new light on this capacity, and an extensive literature indicates the involvement of distinct fronto-temporal and temporo-occipito-parietal association cortices in proper-name retrieval. However, comparatively few efforts have sought to explain how memory encoding processes lead to the later recruitment of these distinct regions at retrieval. Here, we provide a unified account of proper-name encoding and retrieval, reviewing evidence that socio-emotional and unitized encoding subserve the retrieval of proper names via anterior-temporal-prefrontal activations. Meanwhile, non-unitized item-item and item-context encoding support subsequent retrieval, largely dependent on the temporo-occipito-parietal cortex. We contend that this well-established divergence in encoding systems can explain how proper names are later retrieved from distinct neural structures. Furthermore, we explore how evidence reviewed here can inform a century-and-a-half-old debate about proper names and the meanings they pick out.

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O'ROURKE, Thomas, DIEGO BALAGUER, Ruth de. Names and their meanings: A dual-process account of proper-name encoding and retrieval. _Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews_. 2020. Vol. 108, núm. 308-321. [consulta: 20 de gener de 2026]. ISSN: 0149-7634. [Disponible a: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/154103]

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