title: Body-object interaction ratings for 1,618 monosyllabic nouns.
abstract: Body-object interaction (BOI) assesses the ease with which a human body can physically interact with a word's referent. Recent research has shown that BOI influences visual word recognition processes in such a way that responses to high-BOI words (e.g., couch) are faster and less error prone than responses to low-BOI words (e.g., cliff). Importantly, the high-BOI words and the low-BOI words that were used in those studies were matched on imageability. In the present study, we collected BOI ratings for a large set of words. BOI ratings, on a 1-7 scale, were obtained for 1,618 monosyllabic nouns. These ratings allowed us to test the generalizability of BOI effects to a large set of items, and they should be useful to researchers who are interested in manipulating or controlling for the effects of BOI. The body-object interaction ratings for this study may be downloaded from the Psychonomic Society's Archive of Norms, Stimuli, and Data, www.psychonomic.org/archive.
authors.affiliation: University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, British Columbia, Canada.
authors.forename: Sherri M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Tillotson
authors.forename: Paul D
authors.initials: PD
authors.lastname: Siakaluk
authors.forename: Penny M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Pexman
mesh_terms: D018594:Human Body; D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination; D014825:Vocabulary