German normative data with naming latencies for 283 action pictures and 600 action verbs.

ABSTRACT: Timed picture naming is a common psycholinguistic paradigm. In this task, participants are asked to label visually depicted objects or actions. Naming performance can be influenced by several picture and verb characteristics which demands fully characterized normative data. In this study, we provide a first German normative data set of picture and verb characteristics associated with a compilation of 283 freely available action pictures and 600 action verbs including naming latencies from 55 participants. We report standard measures for pictures and verbs such as name agreement indices, visual complexity, word frequency, word length, imageability and age of acquisition. In addition, we include less common parameters, such as orthographic Levenshtein distance, transitivity, reflexivity, mor

SUBMITTER: Busch JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9046323 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature