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

Reading is a complex process that draws on a remarkable number of diverse perceptual
and cognitive processes. In this review, I provide an overview of computational models of …

Scientific studies of language behavior need to grapple with a large diversity of languages in
the world and, for reading, a further variability in writing systems. Yet, the ability to form …

Concreteness ratings are presented for 37,058 English words and 2,896 two-word
expressions (such as zebra crossing and zoom in), obtained from over 4,000 participants by …

Abstract Information about the affective meanings of words is used by researchers working
on emotions and moods, word recognition and memory, and text-based sentiment analysis …

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 …

We present word frequencies based on subtitles of British television programmes. We show
that the SUBTLEX-UK word frequencies explain more of the variance in the lexical decision …

Experiments in cognitive psychology usually return two dependent variables: the percentage
of errors and the reaction time of the correct responses. Townsend and Ashby (1978, 1983) …

This article introduces GECO, the Ghent Eye-Tracking Corpus, a monolingual and bilingual
corpus of the eyetracking data of participants reading a complete novel. English …

We present a new database of lexical decision times for English words and nonwords, for
which two groups of British participants each responded to 14,365 monosyllabic and …