There is intense public interest in questions surrounding how children learn to read and how
they can best be taught. Research in psychological science has provided answers to many …

We review recent evidence indicating that researchers in experimental psychology may
have used suboptimal estimates of word frequency. Word frequency measures should be …

We present age-of-acquisition (AoA) ratings for 30,121 English content words (nouns, verbs,
and adjectives). For data collection, this megastudy used the Web-based crowdsourcing …

Abstract Keuleers, Stevens, Mandera, and Brysbaert (2015) presented a new variable, word
prevalence, defined as word knowledge in the population. Some words are known to more …

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 …

Understanding a written text requires some higher cognitive abilities that not all children
have. Some children have these abilities, since they understand oral texts; however, they …

The word frequency effect is stronger in second language (L2) processing than in first
language (L1) processing. According to the lexical entrenchment hypothesis, this difference …

Reading is a cultural invention and a learned skill that is acquired only through years of
instruction and practice. Understanding the functional mechanisms that underpin this …

Subjective estimations of age of acquisition (AoA) for a large pool of Spanish words were
collected from college students in Spain. The average score for each word (based on 50 …

Background: Aphasia patients can produce some words reliably but have difficulty retrieving
other words. In this article we review one of the variables that have been proposed to …