title: Contrasting effects of age of acquisition and word frequency on auditory and visual lexical decision.
abstract: In four experiments, we examined the effects of frequency and age of acquisition on auditory and visual lexical decision. Word frequency affected visual, but not auditory, lexical decision speed (Experiments 1 and 3). Age of acquisition affected lexical decision speed in both modalities (Experiments 2 and 4). We suggest that previous reports of effects of frequency on auditory lexical decision may be due to a confounding of frequency with age of acquisition, and we discuss the implications of these findings for theories of auditory and visual word recognition.
authors.affiliation: University of Reading, England. j.e.turner@reading.ac.uk
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Turner
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Valentine
authors.forename: A W
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: Ellis
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D001288:Attention; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall; D010153:Paired-Associate Learning; D010700:Phonetics; D011578:Psycholinguistics; D011930:Reaction Time; D013067:Speech Perception; D014706:Verbal Learning