Reading is a highly complex skill that is prerequisite to success in many societies in which a
great deal of information is communicated in written form. Since the 1970s, much has been …

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 …

Provides an overview of state-of-the-art research on the science of reading, revised and
updated throughout The Science of Reading presents the most recent advances in the study …

Some theories of lexical access in production locate the effect of lexical frequency at the
retrieval of a word's phonological characteristics, as opposed to the prior retrieval of a …

Following a brief history of age of acquisition (AoA) research and consideration of measures
of AoA, this review examines AoA effects in lexical processing tasks (such as object naming …

This paper investigates a possible correspondence between the acquisition and breakdown
of the ability to name nouns, verbs and their subcategories. The postulation of a universal …

The present study introduces the first substantial German database with norms for semantic
typicality, age of acquisition, and concept familiarity for 824 exemplars of 11 semantic …

In this study we investigated the neural correlates of acquired reading disorders through an
anatomo-correlative procedure of the lesions of 59 focal brain damaged patients suffering …

Although abstract and concrete concepts are processed and remembered differently, the
underlying nature of those differences remains in dispute. The current study used visual half …

Electrophysiological techniques were used to assess the generalizability of concreteness
effects on word processing across word class (nouns and verbs) and different types of …