Psychology has historically been concerned, first and foremost, with explaining the causal
mechanisms that give rise to behavior. Randomized, tightly controlled experiments are …

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 …

This article introduces EsPal: a Web-accessible repository containing a comprehensive set
of properties of Spanish words. EsPal is based on an extensible set of data sources …

Pseudowords play an important role in psycholinguistic experiments, either because they
are required for performing tasks, such as lexical decision, or because they are the main …

A 2-layer symbolic network model based on the equilibrium equations of the Rescorla–
Wagner model (Danks, 2003) is proposed. The study first presents 2 experiments in Serbian …

Emotion influences most aspects of cognition and behavior, but emotional factors are
conspicuously absent from current models of word recognition. The influence of emotion on …

It is a long established convention that the relationship between sounds and meanings of
words is essentially arbitrary—typically the sound of a word gives no hint of its meaning …

We present a new database of Dutch word frequencies based on film and television
subtitles, and we validate it with a lexical decision study involving 14,000 monosyllabic and …

We use the results of a large online experiment on word knowledge in Dutch to investigate
variables influencing vocabulary size in a large population and to examine the effect of word …