Role of Age of Acquisition in processing famous faces
Age of Acquisition (AoA) - Gaining information early on in life will result in quicker reaction time when the information is subsequently recalled. Hence large body of research has been done on AoA, (particularly in word identification and picture identification studies) supporting that the speed of recall is actually largely depending on when the words or objects were first obtained. This phenomenon was first identified by (Carroll and White 1973b). Their finding was an important milestone as it demonstrates that prior acquired names of objects are more likely to be absorbed into our memory, than the later obtained ones. Accordingly early acquired names of objects are more efficiently
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Findings show that WF plays an extensive role in most of the AoA studies. To define, WF takes place if a word is frequently met.(*) Therefore often used in day-to-day life, (eg; clear frequent vs incisive not that frequent) input and output has to be constant by this means, hearing and processing of the word thus verbally communicating them. To sum up words which is actively present within the sample's overall mental dictionary will lead to faster RT in recall, in contrast to the words which are less frequently used (Morrison & Ellis, 1995)
Furthermore AoA studies have been highly conducted in the past few decades. However most of the studies have been rather interested in word and image recognition. Accordingly the studies about face recognition and AoA effects are rather narrow.
This experiment is looking at demonstrating weather AoA has an effect of face recognition and weather Age of Acquisition is a relevant factor in the ability of recalling faces, Does our ability to recall faces depend on the age when the face was first acquired? - The research is looking to explore this question in depth, looking at factors that might play a role in the results. Eg; confounding variables such as; frequency matters, phonological contrast, age of participants, and cultural