The acquisition of new skills over a life span is a remarkable human ability. This ability,
however, is constrained by age of acquisition (AoA); that is, the age at which learning occurs …

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 …

Abstract The Glasgow Norms are a set of normative ratings for 5,553 English words on nine
psycholinguistic dimensions: arousal, valence, dominance, concreteness, imageability …

This article presents a theory of visual word recognition that assumes that, in the tasks of
word identification, lexical decision, and semantic categorization, human readers behave as …

Three experiments using online-processing measures explored whether native and non-
native Spanish-speaking adults use gender-marked articles to identify referents of target …

David Groome with Hazel Dewart, Anthony Esgate, Kevin Gurney, Richard Kemp, and
Nicola Towell. An Introduction to Cognitive Psychology: Processes and Disorders is a …

Ratings of age of acquisition (AoA), imageability, and familiarity were collected for 1,526
words. The methodology made use of a modular approach, in which the full sample of words …

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 …

Publisher Summary This chapter presents a discussion on the word recognition literature.
Word recognition research is central to notions regarding different levels/codes of analysis in …

A brief historical background on scientific studies of expert performance describes how the
articles published in this special issue relate to recent advances in the study of expertise …