Repetition Prim ing of the Recogn ition of

T hree experiments examined repetition priming of the recognition of pr inted proper names of familiar people by the prior exposure of those names in their correct form or with their letters re-ar ranged as anagrams. Experiment 1 found that, compared with response times to previously unseen names, name familiarity decisions were made more rapidly if the subject had seen and identi® ed the famous name in the pre-training stage, irrespective of whether they saw the intact name or an anagram. Priming was not demonstrated if the name was not recognized in the pre-training stage. T he results of Experiment 2 suggested that if anagrams were not solved spontaneously in the pre-training stage, being prompted to their identity by the experimenter would not yield reliable priming at test, a result that re ̄ ected previous work using face stimuli (Brunas-Wagstaff, Young, & Ellis, 1992; Johnston, Bar ry, & Williams, 1996). In Experiment 3, prompts were given for all names and anagrams presented at pretraining. Subsequent priming was demonstrated only for names identi® ed spontaneously, which showed that, as with face recognition, it was the situation in which the prime was given that was cr itical in determining whether priming of name recognition occurred. T he ® ndings are used to develop proposed extensions of the Bruce and Young (1986) model such as that offered by Bur ton, Bruce, and Johnston (1990).