Publications by authors named "Manuel Dupont"
Three experiments investigated a common but intriguing phenomenon, that is, repeated personal name confusion, a phenomenon at the border between language and memory. The purpose of those experiments was to evaluate the impact of the semantic and phonological similarities on name confusion and to compare repeated naming confusions (i.e.
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- This study focused on "personal name confusion," where a person mistakenly calls someone they know by a different name, and examined two types: single (occurs once) and repeated (occurs multiple times).
- Participants completed questionnaires to identify similarities (like age and gender of names, name sound similarities, and low stress levels) and differences (like context of confusion and tiredness) between single and repeated confusions.
- Key findings revealed that factors like facial resemblance, phonological name similarity, and age difference were significant predictors of how often repeated confusions happened.