Beyond Valence and Arousal: The Role of Age of Acquisition in Emotion Word Recognition [PDF]
Behavioral Sciences, 2023 Although the age of acquisition (AoA) effect has been established in numerous studies, how emotion word processing is modulated by AoA, along with affective factors, such as valence and arousal, is not well understood.
Chenggang Wu, Yiwen Shi, Juan Zhang
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Updating the German Psycholinguistic Word Toolbox with AI-Generated Estimates of Concreteness, Valence, Arousal, Age of Acquisition, and Familiarity [PDF]
Journal of CognitionThis article presents AI-generated estimates for five characteristics of German words: concreteness, valence, arousal, age of acquisition (AoA), and word familiarity.
Javier Conde +8 more
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Age of Acquisition Modulates Alpha Power During Bilingual Speech Comprehension in Noise [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Research on bilingualism has grown exponentially in recent years. However, the comprehension of speech in noise, given the ubiquity of both bilingualism and noisy environments, has seen only limited focus.
Angela M. Grant +20 more
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A Database of Chinese-English Bilingual Speakers: Ratings of the Age of Acquisition and Familiarity [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Recently, considerable attention has been given to the effect of the age of acquisition (AoA) on learning a second language (L2); however, the scarcity of L2 AoA ratings has limited advancements in this field.
Jue Wang, Baoguo Chen
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Italian Age of Acquisition Norms for a Large Set of Words (ItAoA) [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Age of acquisition (AoA) is an important psycholinguistic variable that affects the performance of healthy individuals and patients in a large variety of cognitive tasks. For this reason, it becomes more and more compelling to collect new AoA norms for a
Maria Montefinese +5 more
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Exploring the “Tip of the Tongue” and “Feeling of Knowing” Phenomena During Advanced Aging: The Interplay of Age of Acquisition, Vocabulary and Verbal Fluency [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesBackground/Objectives: The “tip of the tongue” (TOT) and “feeling of knowing” (FOK) phenomena were cognitive experiences that notably affected word retrieval, particularly among older adults.
Carlos Rojas +6 more
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Age of Acquisition in Sport: Starting Early Matters [PDF]
The American Journal of Psychology, 2011 Abstract Although the age at which a skill is learned (age of acquisition [AoA]) is one of the most studied predictors of success in domains ranging from language to music, very little work has focused on this factor in sports. In order to uncover how the age at which a skill is learned relates to how athletes cognitively represent that ...
Arturo E, Hernandez +4 more
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Age of Acquisition Effect: Evidence From Single-Word Reading and Neural Networks [PDF]
Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, 2019 Introduction: Many studies show that words learned early in life are read more easily than the ones learned later and are less vulnerable to brain damage.
Ahmad Sohrabi
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Using Verb Extension to Gauge Children’s Verb Meaning Construals: The Case of Chinese
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Verb extension is a crucial gauge of the acquisition of verb meaning. In English, studies suggest that young children show conservative extension. An important test of whether an early conservative extension is a general phenomenon or a function of the ...
Weiyi Ma +5 more
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Age-of-acquisition effects: A literature review
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2022 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 and accurately than those acquired later. Over several decades, the AoA effect has been investigated using neuroscientific, behavioural, corpus and computational techniques ...
Mahmoud Medhat Elsherif +2 more
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