According to the authors of recent research from Madrid, Spain, "This paper presents a new corpus of 140 high quality colour images belonging to 14 subcategories and covering a range of naming difficulty. One hundred and six Spanish speakers named the items and provided data for several psycholinguistic variables: age of acquisition, familiarity, manipulability, name agreement, typicality and visual complexity."
"Furthermore, we also present lexical frequency data derived internet search hits. Apart from the large number of variables evaluated, these stimuli present an important advantage with respect to other comparable image corpora in so far as naming performance in healthy individuals is less prone to ceiling effect problems. Reliability and validity indexes showed that our items display similar psycholinguistic characteristics to those of other corpora," wrote F.J. Morenomartinez and colleagues (see also Geriatrics and Gerontology).
The researchers concluded: "In sum, this set of ecologically valid stimuli provides a useful tool for scientists engaged in cognitive and neuroscience-based research."
Morenomartinez and colleagues published their study in Aging Neuropsychology and Cognition (A set of high quality colour images with Spanish norms for seven relevant psycholinguistic variables: The Nombela naming test. Aging Neuropsychology and Cognition, 2011;18(3):293-327).
For additional information, contact F.J. Morenomartinez, UNED, Dept. of Psicol Basica 1, C Juan del Rosal 10, Madrid 28040, SPAIN.
Publisher contact information for the journal Aging Neuropsychology and Cognition is: Psychology Press, 27 Church Rd., Hove BN3 2FA, East Sussex, England.
Keywords: City:Madrid, Country:Spain, Region:Europe, Environment, Conservation, Geriatrics and Gerontology
This article was prepared by Health & Medicine Week editors from staff and other reports. Copyright 2011, Health & Medicine Week via NewsRx.com.
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