Learning is using past experiences to inform new behaviors and actions. Because all
experiences are unique, learning always requires some generalization. An effective way of …

There is intense public interest in questions surrounding how children learn to read and how
they can best be taught. Research in psychological science has provided answers to many …

Adult semantic memory has been traditionally conceptualized as a relatively static memory
system that consists of knowledge about the world, concepts, and symbols. Considerable …

A growing body of evidence suggests that cognition is embodied and grounded. Abstract
concepts, though, remain a significant theoretical challenge. A number of researchers have …

The words in children's language learning environments are strongly predictive of cognitive
development and school achievement. But how do we measure language environments and …

This article introduces the Children and Young People's Books-Lexicon (CYP-LEX), a large-
scale lexical database derived from books popular with children and young people in the …

Frequency exerts a powerful influence on lexical processing but it is possible that at least
part of its effect is caused by high frequency words being experienced in more diverse …

Abstract Contextual diversity (CD; Adelman, Brown, & Quesada, 2006) modifies word
frequency by ignoring word repetition in context. It has been repeatedly found that a CD …

Lexical processing is influenced by a word's semantic diversity, as estimated by corpus-
derived metrics. Although this suggests that contextual variation shapes verbal learning and …

For decades word frequency has been one of the most important variables in
psycholinguistics. Frequent words are more easily recognized and processed more …