title: A new set of 272 pictures for psycholinguistic studies: Persian norms for name agreement, image agreement, conceptual familiarity, visual complexity, and age of acquisition.
abstract: Pictures are often used in studies on memory, perception, and language; normative data are thus needed for such visual stimuli. In the present study, we aimed to obtain normative data for a set of 272 black-and-white pictures from middle-aged and elderly Persian speakers. A total of 206 volunteers were divided into two groups: a middle-aged (40-59 years old) group and an elderly (60 years old and over) group. The groups had similar characteristics in terms of education. Norms for every picture were developed to provide measures of name agreement, image agreement, conceptual familiarity, age of acquisition, and visual complexity. The results revealed that all of these measures vary with age, except for conceptual familiarity.
authors.affiliation: Department of Speech Therapy, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran.|Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
authors.forename: Leila
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ghasisin
authors.affiliation: Department of Speech Therapy, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran. faribayadegari@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Fariba
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Yadegari
authors.affiliation: Department of Statistics, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Mehdi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rahgozar
authors.affiliation: Psychology Department, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran.
authors.forename: Ali
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nazari
authors.affiliation: Department of Speech Therapy, School of Rehabilitation, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
authors.forename: Niloufar
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Rastegarianzade
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007492:Iran; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory; D008875:Middle Aged; D009275:Names; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D011578:Psycholinguistics; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D014796:Visual Perception
keywords: Age of acquisition; Familiarity; Image agreement; Name agreement; Persian language; Picture norms; Visual complexity