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Why are some people’s names easier to learn than others? The effects of face similarity on memory for face-name associations

Overview of attention for article published in Memory & Cognition, September 2008
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (82nd percentile)

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2 X users
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5 Wikipedia pages

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Article details
Title
Why are some people’s names easier to learn than others? The effects of face similarity on memory for face-name associations
Published in
Memory & Cognition, September 2008
DOI 10.3758/mc.36.6.1182
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 1 2%
Netherlands 1 2%
Unknown 54 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 11 20%
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 18%
Professor 6 11%
Student > Bachelor 5 9%
Lecturer 3 5%
Other 12 21%
Unknown 9 16%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 24 43%
Neuroscience 5 9%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 7%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 2 4%
Medicine and Dentistry 2 4%
Other 5 9%
Unknown 14 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 30 March 2025.
All research outputs
#4,751,655
of 25,727,480 outputs
Outputs from Memory & Cognition
#311
of 1,676 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#17,109
of 96,994 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Memory & Cognition
#3
of 3 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 1,676 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 8.8. This one has done well, scoring higher than 81% of its peers.
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