Age of acquisition and imageability: a cross‐task comparison

Ploetz, Danielle M.; Yates, Mark

doi:10.1111/1467-9817.12040

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“…Furthermore, the evidence seems to indicate that the AoA effect can be found specifically in the connections between orthography and semantic representations. In a PDT, Ploetz and Yates (2016) observed that imageability effects were larger for late-acquired words than early-acquired words. Ploetz and Yates concluded that the imageability effect arose from the semantic feedback to orthographic processing, while orthographic-semantic processes caused the AoA effect.…”

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Age-of-acquisition effects: A literature review.

Elsherif¹,

Preece²,

Catling³

2023

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cogni

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and the current review conclude that AoA effects are likely to have three potential sources: first, due to plasticity mechanisms within the connections between levels of representations (between perceptual/orthography, semantic and/or phonology), second, through the levels of connectivity within the semantic system, and third, competition between concepts within the semantic system, such that a unique concept must be chosen from its competitors or several word candidates). However, within this review we have taken the second source and subsumed it under a "multiple loci" account such that the AoA effect is situated in more than one specific linguistic system (i.e., perceptual/orthographic, semantic and phonological). It should be noted that these three sources can be viewed as M. M. Elsherif https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0540-3998 We thank Magdalena Grose-Hodge and Vikki Anderson for proofreading the article.

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Section: Theoretical Account Of Aoa Effectsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Age-of-acquisition effects: A literature review.

Elsherif¹,

Preece²,

Catling³

2023

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cogni

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“…The AoA effect has been demonstrated in many tasks including recognition without identification (e.g., Catling et al, 2021), word naming (e.g. Ellis & Morrison, 1998), phrasal lexical decision (Arnon et al, 2017) and progressive demasking (Ploetz & Yates, 2016). For more information about the AoA effects in lexical tasks and neuro-diverse populations such as aphasic patients see reviews by Brysbaert and Ellis (2016) and Elsherif et al (2023).…”

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Are Two Words Recalled or Recognised as One? How Age-of-Acquisition Affects Memory for Compound Words

Elsherif¹,

Catling²

2023

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The age at which a person acquires knowledge of an item is a strong predictor of item retrieval, hereon defined as the Age of Acquisition (AoA) effect. This effect is such that early-acquired words are processed more quickly and accurately than late-acquired items. One account to explain this effect is the integrated account, where the AoA effect occurs in the early processes of lexical retrieval and hence should increase in tasks necessitating greater semantic processing. Importantly, this account has been applied to lexical processing, but not, to date, memory tasks. The current study aimed to assess whether the integrated account could explain memory tasks, using compound words, which differ from monomorphemic words regarding ease of mapping and semantic processes. Four-hundred-and-eighty participants were split into four groups of 120 participants for each of four experiments. Participants were required to recall unspaced and spaced compound words (Experiments 1 and 2, respectively) or make a recognition decision for unspaced and spaced compound words (Experiments 3 and 4, respectively). This approach allowed us to establish how semantic processing was involved in recalling and recognising the items. We found that (AoA) was related to all tasks such that irrespective of space, early-acquired compound words were recalled more accurately than late-acquired compound words in free recall. In recognition memory, late-acquired compound words were recognised more accurately than early-acquired compound words. However, the slope for the AoA was semantic processing influenced free recall to a greater extent than the recognition memory, with the AoA effect being larger in free recall than recognition memory. In addition, the AoA effect for the compound word was larger in spaced compound words than unspaced compound words. This demonstrates that the AoA effect in memory has multiple sources.

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Are two words recalled or recognised as one? How age-of-acquisition affects memory for compound words

Elsherif

Catling

2023

Journal of Memory and Language

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Age of acquisition and imageability: a cross‐task comparison

Cited by 3 publications

References 33 publications

Age-of-acquisition effects: A literature review.

Age-of-acquisition effects: A literature review.

Are Two Words Recalled or Recognised as One? How Age-of-Acquisition Affects Memory for Compound Words

Are two words recalled or recognised as one? How age-of-acquisition affects memory for compound words

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