Psycholinguistic norms for object naming constitute a vital foundation for research into language processing, lexical retrieval and cognitive perception. By establishing standardised measures from ...

Even for infants just beginning to speak their first words, the way an object is named guides infants' encoding, representation and memory for that object, according to new research. Encoding objects ...

Aaron Buss received funding from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Alexis McCraw does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Aaron Buss, University of Tennessee and Alexis McCraw, University of Tennessee (THE ...