TY  - JOUR
A1  - Miklashevsky, Alex A.
T1  - Perceptual experience norms for 506 Russian nouns
BT  - modality rating, spatial localization, manipulability, imageability and other variables
JF  - Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
N2  - A number of new psycholinguistic variables has been proposed during the last years within embodied cognition framework: modality experience rating (i.e., relationship between words and images of a particular perceptive modality-visual, auditory, haptic etc.), manipulability (the necessity for an object to interact with human hands in order to perform its function), vertical spatial localization. However, it is not clear how these new variables are related to each other and to such traditional variables as imageability, AoA and word frequency. In this article, normative data on the modality (visual, auditory, haptic, olfactory, and gustatory) ratings, vertical spatial localization of the object, manipulability, imageability, age of acquisition, and subjective frequency for 506 Russian nouns are presented. Strongest correlations were observed between olfactory and gustatory modalities (.81), visual modality and imageability (.78), haptic modality and manipulability (.7). Other modalities also significantly correlate with imageability: olfactory (.35), gustatory (.24), and haptic (.67). Factor analysis divided variables into four groups where visual and haptic modality ratings were combined with imageability, manipulability and AoA (the first factor); word length, frequency and AoA formed the second factor; olfactory modality was united with gustatory (the third factor); spatial localization only is included in the fourth factor. Present norms of imageability and AoA are consistent with previous as correlation analysis has revealed. The complete database can be downloaded from supplementary material.
KW  - Embodied cognition
KW  - Modality rating
KW  - Spatial localization
KW  - Manipulability
KW  - Imageability
KW  - AoA
KW  - Word frequency
KW  - Russian
KW  - Database
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-017-9548-1
SN  - 0090-6905
SN  - 1573-6555
VL  - 47
IS  - 3
SP  - 641
EP  - 661
PB  - Springer
CY  - New York
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Rofes, Adria
A1  - Zakarias, Lilla
A1  - Ceder, Klaudia
A1  - Lind, Marianne
A1  - Johansson, Monica Blom
A1  - de Aguiar, Vania
A1  - Bjekic, Jovana
A1  - Fyndanis, Valantis
A1  - Gavarro, Anna
A1  - Simonsen, Hanne Gram
A1  - Hernandez Sacristan, Carlos
A1  - Kambanaros, Maria
A1  - Kraljevic, Jelena Kuva
A1  - Martinez-Ferreiro, Silvia
A1  - Mavis, Ilknur
A1  - Mendez Orellana, Carolina
A1  - Sor, Ingrid
A1  - Lukacs, Agnes
A1  - Tuncer, Muge
A1  - Vuksanovic, Jasmina
A1  - Munarriz Ibarrola, Amaia
A1  - Pourquie, Marie
A1  - Varlokosta, Spyridoula
A1  - Howard, David
T1  - Imageability ratings across languages
JF  - Behavior research methods : a journal of the Psychonomic Society
N2  - Imageability is a psycholinguistic variable that indicates how well a word gives rise to a mental image or sensory experience. Imageability ratings are used extensively in psycholinguistic, neuropsychological, and aphasiological studies. However, little formal knowledge exists about whether and how these ratings are associated between and within languages. Fifteen imageability databases were cross-correlated using nonparametric statistics. Some of these corresponded to unpublished data collected within a European research network-the Collaboration of Aphasia Trialists (COST IS1208). All but four of the correlations were significant. The average strength of the correlations (rho = .68) and the variance explained (R (2) = 46%) were moderate. This implies that factors other than imageability may explain 54% of the results. Imageability ratings often correlate across languages. Different possibly interacting factors may explain the moderate strength and variance explained in the correlations: (1) linguistic and cultural factors; (2) intrinsic differences between the databases; (3) range effects; (4) small numbers of words in each database, equivalent words, and participants; and (5) mean age of the participants. The results suggest that imageability ratings may be used cross-linguistically. However, further understanding of the factors explaining the variance in the correlations will be needed before research and practical recommendations can be made.
KW  - Imageability
KW  - Linguistics
KW  - Cross-linguistic
KW  - Correlations
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-017-0936-0
SN  - 1554-351X
SN  - 1554-3528
VL  - 50
IS  - 3
SP  - 1187
EP  - 1197
PB  - Springer
CY  - New York
ER  -