We present age-of-acquisition (AoA) ratings for 30,121 English content words (nouns, verbs,
and adjectives). For data collection, this megastudy used the Web-based crowdsourcing …

We present word prevalence data for 61,858 English words. Word prevalence refers to the
number of people who know the word. The measure was obtained on the basis of an online …

It is striking that visual attention, the process by which attentional resources are allocated in
the visual field so as to locally enhance visual perception, is a pervasive component of …

In comparison with personality taxonomic research, there has been much less advancement
toward establishing an integrative taxonomy of psychological situation characteristics …

Abstract Keuleers, Stevens, Mandera, and Brysbaert (2015) presented a new variable, word
prevalence, defined as word knowledge in the population. Some words are known to more …

The word frequency effect is stronger in second language (L2) processing than in first
language (L1) processing. According to the lexical entrenchment hypothesis, this difference …

There is considerable evidence (eg, Pexman et al.,) that semantically rich words, which are
associated with relatively more semantic information, are recognized faster across different …

The font size effect on judgments of learning (JOLs) refers to the fact that people give higher
JOLs to large than to small font size words, despite font size having no effect on retention …

We present a new dataset of English word recognition times for a total of 62 thousand words,
called the English Crowdsourcing Project. The data were collected via an internet …

Abstract Models of reading must explain how orthographic input activates a phonological
representation, and elicits the retrieval of word meaning from semantic memory …