The ease of recalling a name given an individual's photograph or an image of a face given an individual's name was compared in two studies. Significantly more correct recalls of faces than names were reported; however, the numbers of reported states of partial recall varied both as a function of visual familiarity and experimental conditions. The results were interpreted in terms of the importance of access to the verbal-symbolic memory system for recall of either the face or the name at low levels of visual familiarity.
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