Age-of-acquisition effects in word and picture identification.

By B. Juhasz. 2005

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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The stability-plasticity dilemma: investigating the continuum from catastrophic forgetting to age-limited learning effects (2013, background): “Various studies working within this perspective haveshown that words acquired early are processed faster and more accurately than words acquired later in life (see Juhasz, 2005; Johnston and Barry, 2006 for reviews).”
SUBTLEX-NL: A new measure for Dutch word frequency based on film subtitles (2010, background): “This source gained importance in research on the age-of-acquisition effect in visual word recognition, which demonstrates that words learned early in life keep a processing advantage over words learned later in life, even when corrected for the best possible frequency norms (for reviews, see Ghyseli”
Age-of-acquisition ratings for 30,000 English words (2012, background): “A promising variable to add to the big four is AoA, or the age at which a word was learned (for reviews, see Brysbaert & Ghyselinck, 2006; Ghyselinck, Lewis, & Brysbaert, 2004; Johnston & Barry, 2006; Juhasz, 2005).”
Digging up the building blocks of language: Age-of-acquisition effects for multiword phrases (2017, background): “First, they predict reaction times on a variety of tasks (see Juhasz, 2005, for a review): subjective AoA ratings from one sample of participants predicts reaction times collected from a different sample.”
The Bayesian reader: explaining word recognition as an optimal Bayesian decision process. (2006, background): “It has also been argued that age of acquisition (Juhasz, 2005; Morrison & Ellis, 1995; Morrison, Ellis, & Quinlan, 1992) or cumulative frequency (Zevin & Seidenberg, 2004) are more powerful determinants of recognition than overall frequency of occurrence.”
Short article: The effects of age of acquisition and frequency trajectory on object naming: Comments on Pérez (2007) (2009, positive): “In the study of the factors that affect lexical processing, a considerable debate has arisen concerning the respective roles of the age of acquisition and frequency of words (for reviews, see Johnston & Barry, 2006; Juhasz, 2005). In the study of the characteristics of words that affect object namin”
Computational Evidence That Frequency Trajectory Theory Does Not Oppose But Emerges From Age-of-Acquisition Theory (2012, neutral): “A large number of studies have provided convincing evidence of age-limited learning effects in lexical processing tasks (Johnston & Barry, 2006; Juhasz, 2005 for reviews) using age-of-acquisition (AoA) norms collected either from adult ratings (subjective AoA norms) or from children’s performance…”
Moving beyond Kučera and Francis: A critical evaluation of current word frequency norms and the introduction of a new and improved word frequency measure for American English (2009, background): “The Kučera and Francis (1967) word frequency norms are still widely used in American research, despite the fact that serious concerns have been raised about them (Balota et al.”
Age of acquisition: its neural and computational mechanisms. (2007, background): “Several general accounts of AoA effects have been proposed (for a recent review of the literature see Juhasz, 2005).”
More use almost always a means a smaller frequency effect: Aging, bilingualism, and the weaker links hypothesis. (2008, background): “Objective and subjective AoA measures are highly correlated (see review by Juhasz, 2005); we used subjective ratings because it is not clear to what extent monolingual norms would apply to bilinguals.”
Using Eye Movements to Investigate Word Frequency Effects in Children's Sentence Reading (2013, methodology): “First, as shown by previous research (Juhasz, 2005; Juhasz & Rayner, 2006), if a word was acquired early in life, that word will be identified significantly faster than a word acquired later in life, all other things being equal.”
Frequency Trajectory Gives Rise to an Age-Limited Learning Effect as a Function of Input-Output Mapping in Connectionist Networks (2009, background): “…have convincingly shown that words acquired early in life are processed faster and more accurately than words acquired later in life (Johnston & Barry, 2006; Juhasz, 2005 for recent reviews) using age of acquisition (AoA) norms collected from either adult ratings or from children's performance.”
Few-shot Language Coordination by Modeling Theory of Mind (2021, background): “The reason behind this design is cognitively motivated; word frequency has high correlation with age of acquisition (AoA) of words (Juhasz, 2005).”