title: BLIND: a set of semantic feature norms from the congenitally blind.
abstract: Feature-based descriptions of concepts produced by subjects in a property generation task are widely used in cognitive science to develop empirically grounded concept representations and to study systematic trends in such representations. This article introduces BLIND, a collection of parallel semantic norms collected from a group of congenitally blind Italian subjects and comparable sighted subjects. The BLIND norms comprise descriptions of 50 nouns and 20 verbs. All the materials have been semantically annotated and translated into English, to make them easily accessible to the scientific community. The article also presents a preliminary analysis of the BLIND data that highlights both the large degree of overlap between the groups and interesting differences. The complete BLIND norms are freely available and can be downloaded from http://sesia.humnet.unipi.it/blind_data .
authors: Department of Philology, Literature, and Linguistics, University of Pisa, via Santa Maria 36, Pisa, 56126, Italy, alessandro.lenci@ling.unipi.it.
authors: Alessandro
authors: A
authors: Lenci
authors: Marco
authors: M
authors: Baroni
authors: Giulia
authors: G
authors: Cazzolli
authors: Giovanna
authors: G
authors: Marotta
mesh_terms: D000070:Acebutolol; D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001766:Blindness / Q000151:congenital* / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D007807:Language Tests / Q000592:standards*; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D012016:Reference Values; D012660:Semantics; D012984:Software; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: D000070:Acebutolol