Participant and Word Gender in Age of Acquisition Effects: The Role of Gender Socialization

Sereno, Sara C.; O’Donnell, Patrick

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“…The two sets of stimuli were matched on visual complexity, familiarity, imageability, name agreement, word length and two measures of word frequency (Table 1). Given the predominance of female participants in the preliminary experiment, we note that AoA effects have been reported to be equivalent across male and female adults (e.g., Sereno and O'Donnell, 2009).…”

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Interactions between visual and semantic processing during object recognition revealed by modulatory effects of age of acquisition

et al. 2014

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Northumbria University has developed Northumbria Research Link (NRL) to enable users to access the University's research output. Copyright © and moral rights for items on NRL are retained by the individual author(s) and/or other copyright owners. Single copies of full items can be reproduced, displayed or performed, and given to third parties in any format or medium for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-profit purposes without prior permission or charge, provided the authors, title and full bibliographic details are given, as well as a hyperlink and/or URL to the original metadata page. The content must not be changed in any way. Full items must not be sold commercially in any format or medium without formal permission of the copyright holder. The full policy is available online: http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/policies.html This document may differ from the final, published version of the research and has been made available online in accordance with publisher policies. To read and/or cite from the published version of the research, please visit the publisher's website (a subscription may be required.)Interactions between visual and semantic processing during object recognition revealed by modulatory effects of age of acquisition The age of acquisition (AoA) of objects and their names is a powerful determinant of processing speed in adulthood, with early-acquired objects being recognized and named faster than late-acquired objects. Previous research using fMRI . Traces of vocabulary acquisition in the brain: evidence from covert object naming. NeuroImage 33,[958][959][960][961][962][963][964][965][966][967][968] found that AoA modulated the strength of BOLD responses in both occipital and left anterior temporal cortex during object naming. We used magnetoencephalography (MEG) to explore in more detail the nature of the influence of AoA on activity in those two regions. Covert object naming recruited a network within the left hemisphere that is familiar from previous research, including visual, left occipito-temporal, anterior temporal and inferior frontal regions. Region of interest (ROI) analyses found that occipital cortex generated a rapid evoked response (~ 75-200 ms at 0-40 Hz) that peaked at 95 ms but was not modulated by AoA. That response was followed by a complex of later occipital responses that extended from ~ 300 to 850 ms and were stronger to early-than late-acquired items from ~ 325 to 675 ms at 10-20 Hz in the induced rather than the evoked component. Left anterior temporal cortex showed an evoked response that occurred significantly later than the first occipital response (~ 100-400 ms at 0-10 Hz with a peak at 191 ms) and was stronger to early-than late-acquired items from ~ 100 to 300 ms at 2-12 Hz. A later anterior temporal response from ~ 550 to 1050 ms at 5-20 Hz was not modulated by AoA. The results indicate that the initial analysis of object forms in visual cortex is not influenced by AoA. A fastforward sweep of activation from occipital and left anterior temporal cortex t...

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Interactions between visual and semantic processing during object recognition revealed by modulatory effects of age of acquisition

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“…While the chief variables affecting the speed of recognizing a word are its length, frequency, and contextual predictability, several other lexical variables are also known to influence processing of words (e.g., Sereno et al, 2009 ; Yao et al, 2013 ). For example, high imageable or early AoA words are facilitated relative to low imageable or late AoA words (e.g., Juhasz and Rayner, 2003 ; Balota et al, 2004 ; Sereno and O'Donnell, 2009 ). In addition, the grammatical class of a word also affects its processing (e.g., Sereno, 1999 ; Palazova et al, 2011 ).…”

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Emotion word processing: does mood make a difference?

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Visual emotion word processing has been in the focus of recent psycholinguistic research. In general, emotion words provoke differential responses in comparison to neutral words. However, words are typically processed within a context rather than in isolation. For instance, how does one's inner emotional state influence the comprehension of emotion words? To address this question, the current study examined lexical decision responses to emotionally positive, negative, and neutral words as a function of induced mood as well as their word frequency. Mood was manipulated by exposing participants to different types of music. Participants were randomly assigned to one of three conditions—no music, positive music, and negative music. Participants' moods were assessed during the experiment to confirm the mood induction manipulation. Reaction time results confirmed prior demonstrations of an interaction between a word's emotionality and its frequency. Results also showed a significant interaction between participant mood and word emotionality. However, the pattern of results was not consistent with mood-congruency effects. Although positive and negative mood facilitated responses overall in comparison to the control group, neither positive nor negative mood appeared to additionally facilitate responses to mood-congruent words. Instead, the pattern of findings seemed to be the consequence of attentional effects arising from induced mood. Positive mood broadens attention to a global level, eliminating the category distinction of positive-negative valence but leaving the high-low arousal dimension intact. In contrast, negative mood narrows attention to a local level, enhancing within-category distinctions, in particular, for negative words, resulting in less effective facilitation.

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“…More recently, however, Brysbaert (2017) demonstrated that the best predictor of objective AOA is rated AOA. Behaviorally, words acquired earlier in life are recognized faster than those acquired later (e.g., Cortese & Khanna, 2007; Johnston & Barry, 2006; Juhasz & Rayner, 2006; Sereno & O’Donnell, 2009).…”

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“…The final dimensions of SIZE and GEND have only been the subject of more recent psycholinguistic investigations (e.g., Sereno & O’Donnell, 2009; Sereno et al, 2009; Yao et al, 2013). SIZE is a measure of magnitude (big, small) expressed in either concrete or abstract terms.…”

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The Glasgow Norms: Ratings of 5,500 words on nine scales

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The Glasgow Norms are a set of normative ratings for 5,553 English words on nine psycholinguistic dimensions: arousal, valence, dominance, concreteness, imageability, familiarity, age of acquisition, semantic size, and gender association. The Glasgow Norms are unique in several respects. First, the corpus itself is relatively large, while simultaneously providing norms across a substantial number of lexical dimensions. Second, for any given subset of words, the same participants provided ratings across all nine dimensions (33 participants/word, on average). Third, two novel dimensions-semantic size and gender association-are included. Finally, the corpus contains a set of 379 ambiguous words that are presented either alone (e.g., toast) or with information that selects an alternative sense (e.g., toast (bread), toast (speech)). The relationships between the dimensions of the Glasgow Norms were initially investigated by assessing their correlations. In addition, a principal component analysis revealed four main factors, accounting for 82% of the variance (Visualization, Emotion, Salience, and Exposure). The validity of the Glasgow Norms was established via comparisons of our ratings to 18 different sets of current psycholinguistic norms. The dimension of size was tested with megastudy data, confirming findings from past studies that have explicitly examined this variable. Alternative senses of ambiguous words (i.e., disambiguated forms), when discordant on a given dimension, seemingly led to appropriately distinct ratings. Informal comparisons between the ratings of ambiguous words and of their alternative senses showed different patterns that likely depended on several factors (the number of senses, their relative strengths, and the rating scales themselves). Overall, the Glasgow Norms provide a valuable resource-in particular, for researchers investigating the role of word recognition in language comprehension.

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Participant and Word Gender in Age of Acquisition Effects: The Role of Gender Socialization

Cited by 12 publications

References 47 publications

Interactions between visual and semantic processing during object recognition revealed by modulatory effects of age of acquisition

Interactions between visual and semantic processing during object recognition revealed by modulatory effects of age of acquisition

Emotion word processing: does mood make a difference?

The Glasgow Norms: Ratings of 5,500 words on nine scales

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