Order of acquisition in learning perceptual categories: A laboratory analogue of the age-of-acquisition effect?

N Stewart, AW Ellis - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2008 - Springer
In the age-of-acquisition (AoA) effect, an advantage for recognition and production is found
for items learned early in life, as compared with items learned later. In this laboratory …

Age-of-acquisition and cumulative frequency have independent effects.

V Moore, T Valentine, J Turner - Cognition, 1999 - europepmc.org
Lewis (1999) argued that effects of age of acquisition (AoA) are entirely attributable to
cumulative frequency. He reported an instance-based model in which the number of …

[HTML][HTML] Age-of-acquisition effects: A literature review.

MM Elsherif, E Preece, JC Catling - Journal of Experimental …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Age of acquisition (AoA) refers to the age at which people learn a particular item and the
AoA effect refers to the phenomenon that early-acquired items are processed more quickly …

Age effects on category learning, categorical perception, and generalization

CR Bowman, SR Ashby, D Zeithamova - Memory, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Age deficits in memory for individual episodes are well established. Less is known about
how age affects another key memory function: the ability to form new conceptual knowledge …

Age of acquisition effects in recognition without identification tasks

JC Catling, C Pymont, RA Johnston, MM Elsherif… - Memory, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The Age of Acquisition (AoA) effect results in early-acquired words being
processed more quickly and accurately than later-acquired words. This effect is argued to …

The effect of age on the learning of a nondeclarative category classification task

H P. Davis Kelli J. Klebe Beth Bever … - Experimental aging …, 1998 - Taylor & Francis
A category classification task was administered to participants in their twenties through their
eighties. Participants studied a set of high distortions of a prototype dot pattern and were …

The hunt for the age of acquisition effect: It's in the links!

JC Catling, MM Elsherif - Acta Psychologica, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Age of Acquisition (AoA) effect is such that words acquired early in life are
processed more quickly than later-acquired words. One explanation for the AoA effects is the …

Age-of-acquisition effects in novel picture naming: A laboratory analogue

J Catling, K Dent, E Preece… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Age-of-acquisition (AoA) effects are such that early-acquired items are more quickly
recognized and produced than later acquired items. In this laboratory analogue, participants …

[PDF][PDF] Influence of processing speed on adult age differences in learning

TA Salthouse - Age, 1995 - uva.theopenscholar.com
Adult age-related differences in learning are well-established in a variety of learning
situations. For example, there are reports of slower learning by older adults in maze learning …

Age-of-acquisition effects in word and picture identification.

BJ Juhasz - Psychological bulletin, 2005 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract Words and pictures with earlier learned labels are processed faster than words and
pictures with later learned labels. This age-of-acquisition (AoA) effect has been extensively …