A new set of 272 pictures for psycholinguistic studies: Persian norms for name agreement, image agreement, conceptual familiarity, visual complexity, and age of acquisition

Pictures are often used in studies on memory, perception, and language; normative data are thus needed for such visual stimuli. In the present study, we aimed to obtain normative data for a set of 272 black-and-white pictures from middle-aged and elderly Persian speakers. A total of 206 volunteers w...

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Published in:Behavior research methods 2015-12, Vol.47 (4), p.1148-1158
Main Authors: Ghasisin, Leila, Yadegari, Fariba, Rahgozar, Mehdi, Nazari, Ali, Rastegarianzade, Niloufar
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Behavioral Science and Psychology
Cognitive Psychology
Female
Humans
Iran
Language
Male
Memory
Middle Aged
Names
Older people
Photic Stimulation
Psycholinguistics
Psychology
Recognition (Psychology)
Sensory perception
Visual Perception
Visual task performance
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Summary:Pictures are often used in studies on memory, perception, and language; normative data are thus needed for such visual stimuli. In the present study, we aimed to obtain normative data for a set of 272 black-and-white pictures from middle-aged and elderly Persian speakers. A total of 206 volunteers were divided into two groups: a middle-aged (40–59 years old) group and an elderly (60 years old and over) group. The groups had similar characteristics in terms of education. Norms for every picture were developed to provide measures of name agreement, image agreement, conceptual familiarity, age of acquisition, and visual complexity. The results revealed that all of these measures vary with age, except for conceptual familiarity.
ISSN:1554-3528
1554-3528
DOI:10.3758/s13428-014-0537-0