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Beliefs about autobiographical memory and why they matter. Martin Conway, Lucy Justice and Catriona Morrison.

Beliefs about autobiographical memory

Catriona Morrison (University of Leeds) talks to mnemonists and those in the field as she considers whether it’s a blessing or curse.

Interview: Would you want a super memory?

Ian Florance talks to Catriona Morrison about cognitive psychology, teaching and research… with a few mentions of the Beatles on the way.

A trip down memory lane (via Penny Lane)

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Age of acquisition (AoA) has been reported to be a predictor of the speed of reading words aloud (word naming) and lexical decision, with early‐acquired words being responded to faster than later‐acquired words in both tasks. All previous studies of AoA effects have, however, relied upon adult estimates of word learning age the validity of which it is easy to cast doubt upon. Using objective age of acquisition norms derived from children s naming data, this study shows that AoA effects do not depend upon the use of adult ratings In addition to effects of real AoA, influences of word frequency and orthographic neighbourhood size were obtained in both word naming and lexical decision. Image ability affected lexical decision but not word naming, while the characteristics of the words initial phoneme affected word naming but not lexical decision.

Real age of acquisition effects in word naming and lexical decision

Native speakers of Japanese were shown single‐character Kanji words which they read aloud as quickly as possible. Simultaneous multiple regression was used to investigate which of a set of nine variables predicted reading speed. Two factors exerted strong independent effects upon reading speed—the age at which the words enter a Japanese child's spoken vocabulary and the age at which Japanese children learn the characters that are used to write those words. Of three measures of word frequency, only rated familiarity made a significant independent contribution. There were no significant effects of word imageability, the number of alternative pronunciations of a Kanji character, the visual complexity of a character, or the length of the spoken word. We suggest that the quality of lexical representations is affected by the age at which they are learned, and that the effects of age of spoken and written acquisition reflect the influence of those variables upon the speech output lexicon and the visual input lexicon respectively.

Two age of acquisition effects in the reading of Japanese Kanji

Editorial Acknowledgement

Editorial acknowledgement

BRITISH PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Here’s what we found

Beliefs about autobiographical memory

Interview: Would you want a super memory?

A trip down memory lane (via Penny Lane)

Directed forgetting of self-defining autobiographical memories

Real age of acquisition effects in word naming and lexical decision

Two age of acquisition effects in the reading of Japanese Kanji

Editorial Acknowledgement

Editorial Acknowledgement

Editorial Acknowledgement

Editorial acknowledgement

BRITISH PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY