Perceptual and motor attribute ratings for 559 object concepts.
To understand how and when object knowledge influences the neural underpinnings of language comprehension and linguistic behavior, it is critical to determine the specific kinds of knowledge that people have. To extend the normative data currently available, we report a relatively more comprehensive set of object attribute rating norms for 559 concrete object nouns, each rated on seven attributes corresponding to sensory and motor modalities-color, motion, sound, smell, taste, graspability, and pain-in addition to familiarity (376 raters, M = 23 raters per item). The mean ratings were subjected to principal-components analysis, revealing two primary dimensions plausibly interpreted as relating to survival. We demonstrate the utility of these ratings in accounting for lexical and semantic decision latencies. These ratings should prove useful for the design and interpretation of experimental tests of conceptual and perceptual object processing.
Center for Research in Language, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA. bamsel@ucsd.edu
Ben D
BD
Amsel
Thomas P
TP
Urbach
Marta
M
Kutas
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003116:Color; D032882:Comprehension; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D007858:Learning; D008297:Male; D010465:Perception / Q000145:classification*; D011578:Psycholinguistics / Q000379:methods*; D011930:Reaction Time; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D012660:Semantics; D012903:Smell; D013016:Sound; D013649:Taste; D055815:Young Adult