Table 9.

Age of acquisition (AoA) effects in published lexical decision experiments and in virtual experiments with the same stimuli as those from the British Lexicon Project

		Original Experiment RTs	Virtual Experiment RTs
Morrison and Ellis (1995, Experiment 5)	Early acquired	582	552
	Late acquired	648	604
	Effect of AoA	66**	52**
Gerhand and Barry (1998, Experiment 1)	Early acquired, high frequency	593	540
	Early acquired, low frequency	621	538
	Late acquired, high frequency	603	584
	Late acquired, low frequency	730	623
	Effect of AoA	59**	65**
	Effect of frequency	77**	19
	Frequency × AoA Interaction	50**	20+

** p<.01, * p<.05, ⁺ p<.10 or significant only in F ₁ or F ₂