An investigation of face-name learning strategies was done to determine if a visual-feature analysis and a word-coding strategy would improve the face-name learning process. The visual-feature analysis and the word-coding strategy did not produce higher recognition accuracy for faces but did result in significantly higher face-name recall scores shown by a control group and an incidental learning group. Data were interpreted within the level-of-processing approach to memory.
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