title: Predictors of timed picture naming in Persian.
abstract: In this study, we report normative data by native Persian speakers for concept familiarity, age of acquisition (AoA), imageability, image agreement, name agreement, and visual complexity, as well as values for word frequency, word length, and naming latency for 200 of the colored Snodgrass and Vanderwart (Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory 6:174-215, 1980) pictures created by Rossion and Pourtois (Perception 33:217-236, 2004). Using multiple regression analysis, we found independent effects of name agreement, image agreement, word frequency, and AoA on picture naming by native Persian speakers from Iran. We concluded that the psycholinguistic properties identified in studies of picture naming in many other languages also predict timed picture naming in Persian. Normative data for the ratings and picture-naming latencies for the 200 Persian object nouns are provided as an Excel file in the Supplemental materials.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory for Communication Science, Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of Hong Kong, 8/F Meng Wah Building, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China. bakhtiar@hku.hk
authors.forename: Mehdi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bakhtiar
authors.forename: Reza
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Nilipour
authors.forename: Brendan S
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: Weekes
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007492:Iran; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009275:Names; D011578:Psycholinguistics / Q000379:methods*; D011930:Reaction Time; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D012044:Regression Analysis; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D014796:Visual Perception; D055815:Young Adult