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Elsherif, M. M.; Preece, E.; Catling, J. C. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2023
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, behavioral, corpus and computational…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Correlation, Word Frequency, Word Recognition
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Avraamides, Marios N.; Loomis, Jack M.; Klatzky, Roberta L.; Golledge, Reginald G. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2004
Past research (e.g., J. M. Loomis, Y. Lippa, R. L. Klatzky, & R. G. Golledge, 2002) has indicated that spatial representations derived from spatial language can function equivalently to those derived from perception. The authors tested functional equivalence for reporting spatial relations that were not explicitly stated during learning.…
Descriptors: Vision, Visual Perception, Spatial Ability, Cognitive Processes