Age of Acquisition Effects in Word Reading and Other Tasks

By Jason D. Zevin, Mark S. Seidenberg. 2002

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology

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The stability-plasticity dilemma: investigating the continuum from catastrophic forgetting to age-limited learning effects (2013, methodology): “Therefore, according to Zevin and Seidenberg (2002), the loss of plasticity in connectionist systems should vary as a function of the transfer function and the error signal computed.”
Frequency Trajectory Gives Rise to an Age-Limited Learning Effect as a Function of Input-Output Mapping in Connectionist Networks (2009, methodology): “Thus, for systematic and quasisystematic relationships, it remains to be determined whether frequency trajectory, as proposed by Zevin and Seidenberg (2002), can generate age-limited learning effects similar to what was obtained by Ellis and Lambon Ralph (2000) and Lambon-Ralph and Ehsan (2006)…”
Age of acquisition and lexical processing (2006, methodology): “However, Zevin and Seidenberg (2002) questioned their value by arguing that any AoA measure based on children’s ability to name pictures is actually a performance variable, and so its use to predict adult lexical performance presents what they call the ‘‘circularity problem’’.”
The effect of age of acquisition: Partly frequency related, partly frequency independent (2006, methodology): “The first one was highlighted by Zevin and Seidenberg (2002). They agreed with Ellis and Lambon Ralph (2000) that the acquisition order determines the entrenchment of a neural network, but emphasized much more that the emergence of an AoA effect, over and above what is expected on the basis of the c”
Age-of-acquisition effects in word and picture identification. (2005, background): “Zevin and Seidenberg (2002) also suggested that AoA effects in the literature may be due to cumulative frequency.”
MANULEX: A grade-level lexical database from French elementary school readers (2004, result): “In a study on age of acquisition, Zevin and Seidenberg (2002) found that the Zeno et al counts are more closely correlated with latencies than are earlier counts such as those of Kučera and Francis (1967) and CELEX (see below), presumably because of the larger corpus and their inclusion of texts…”
The English Lexicon Project (2007, background): “…HAL norms (described below) or some other estimate of word frequency since it has been repeatedly demonstrated that the Kukera and Francis norms are relatively poor estimates of raw frequency, most likely because of its small corpus (see, for e.g., Balota et al., 2004; Zevin & Seidenberg, 2002).”
Visual Word Recognition (2007, neutral): “Indeed, Zevin and Seidenberg (2002) demonstrated that recent studies of age of acquisition have typically confounded the age of acquisition variable with at least one of the available counts of printed word frequency.”
Morphological influences on the recognition of monosyllabic monomorphemic words (2006, neutral): “…has been challenged by studies on subjective familiarity (Balota et al., 2001; Gernsbacher, 1984; Shapiro, 1969) and age of acquisition (Barry, Hirsh, Johnston, & Williams, 2001; Brysbaert, 1996; Brysbaert, Lange, & Van Wijnendaele, 2000; Carroll & White, 1973a, 1973b; Zevin & Seidenberg, 2002).”
Age of acquisition: its neural and computational mechanisms. (2007, background): “4 Zevin and Seidenberg (2002) have argued that AoA effects may be restricted to tasks in which early learned information does not aid in acquiring items introduced later.”
The effects of age of acquisition on an object classification task (2006, background): “Zevin and Seidenberg ( 2002 ) have since shown that this might only be the case when there is an arbitrary mapping between the input and output patterns.”
A Change–Resistance Account of Children's Difficulties Understanding Mathematical Equivalence (2014, background): “Although such representations are typically beneficial, they can become entrenched, and learning difficulties arise when information to be learned overlaps with, but does not map directly onto, entrenched patterns (e.g., Bruner, 1957; Zevin & Seidenberg, 2002).”
Connectionist models of development (2003, methodology): “This form of entrenchment appears to underlie simulations of the ‘age of acquisition’ effect, in which words that are first presented early in the overall training of a network are more robustly learned than words that are first presented at a later point in training (Ellis & Lambon-Ralph, 2000; Ze”
Imageability ratings for 3,000 monosyllabic words (2004, background): “The relationship that AoA has with measures of word recognition has also been scrutinized (see, e.g., Zevin & Seidenberg, 2002 ).”
More use almost always a means a smaller frequency effect: Aging, bilingualism, and the weaker links hypothesis. (2008, background): “Across studies AoA effects appear to be robust in picture naming (Lambon Ralph, & Ehsan, 2006; Meschyan & Hernandez, 2002 as predicted by Zevin & Seidenberg, 2002) whereas frequency effects are more robust in lexical decision.”
Visual word recognition of single-syllable words. (2004, background): “Moreover, there has been some recent controversy regarding the status of this variable in predicting performance above and beyond cumulative frequency (see Zevin & Seidenberg, 2002).”
The New C Standard (Excerpted material) An Economic and Cultural Commentary (2008, neutral): “Words learned early in life are named more quickly and accurately than those age of acquisition learned later.[350] Age of acquisition interacts with frequency in that children tend to learn the more common words first, although there are some exceptions (e.”
Computing the meanings of words in reading: cooperative division of labor between visual and phonological processes. (2004, background): “See Zevin and Seidenberg (2002) for relevant simulation results and discussion.”