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 …

Semantic memory decline and changes of default mode network (DMN) connectivity have
been reported in mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Only a few studies, however, have …

The role of morphology in reading aloud was examined measuring naming latencies to
pseudowords and words composed of morphemes (roots and derivational suffixes) and …

Bilinguals' two languages seem to be coactivated in parallel during reading, speaking, and
listening. However, this coactivation in writing has been scarcely studied. This study aimed …

A previous study reported that, similar to young and adult skilled readers, Italian
developmental dyslexics read pseudowords made up of a root and a derivational suffix …

In order to explore the role of the main psycholinguistic variables on visual word recognition,
several mega-studies have been conducted in English in recent years. Nevertheless …

Early acquired words are processed faster than later acquired words in lexical and semantic
tasks. Demonstrating such age of acquisition (AoA) effects beyond reasonable doubt, and …

The present study reports descriptive normative measures for 245 Italian verbal idiomatic
expressions. For each of the idiomatic expressions the following variables are reported …

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 …

Normative databases for pictorial stimuli are widely used in research on language
processing in order to control for a number of psycholinguistic variables in the selected …