French categorization norms for 70 semantic categories and comparison with Van Overschelde et al.’s (2004) English norms

Bueno, Steve; Megherbi, Hakima

doi:10.3758/brm.41.4.1018

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“…Interestingly, several of the most commonly used categories in the literature (e.g., in Battig & Montague, 1969;Bueno & Megherbi, 2009;Garrard et al, 2001;McRae et al, 2005;Van Overschelde et al, 2004;Zannino et al, 2006) were among these LR categories-namely <frutta/fruit>, <strumenti musicali/musical instruments>, <armi/weapons>, and <vegetali/vegetables> -since their concepts were listed on average by only a minority of our participants (20.1 %, 11.1 %, 8.5 %, and 6.2 %, respectively).…”

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“…Successively, we computed the first-occurrence valuethat is, the proportion of participants who produced a given concept as their first response (Bueno & Megherbi, 2009;Van Overschelde et al, 2004). This was computed by dividing the number of participants who produced a given concept as the first response for a given category by the total number of participants.…”

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“…This process, called categorization, is a basic mental process in cognition, and without it the world would appear chaotic (Bueno & Megherbi, 2009). Several tasks have been used to investigate the organization of categories, such as the category verification task, in which participants have to decide whether or not a stimulus belongs to a given category (Casey, 1992;McFarland, Kellas, Klueger, & Juola, 1974), or the exemplar generation task, in which participants are asked to list as many members of a given category as possible (Bueno & Megherbi, 2009;Ruts et al, 2004;Storms, 2001;Storms, De Boeck, & Ruts, 2000;Storms, De Boeck, Van Mechelen, & Ruts, 1996). In Experiment 2, we adopted an exemplar generation task and identified four alternative measures to describe the strength of the relationship between a given category and its exemplars: exemplar generation dominance, mean rank order, first occurrence, and exemplar availability.…”

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“…In this way, participants are made to list characteristics for concepts that may not be most representative of the structure of their conceptual knowledge. Indeed, some authors (e.g., Bueno & Megherbi, 2009;Van Overschelde, Rawson, & Dunlosky, 2004) have questioned the appropriateness of earlier databases (especially the norms of Battig & Montague, 1969) and have highlighted the fact that semantic norms rapidly become obsolete, due to the speed of language (and cultural) changes. More importantly, to the best of our knowledge, no previous study has actually controlled, or even measured, the representativeness of the categories or concepts used in creating norms.…”

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Semantic memory: A feature-based analysis and new norms for Italian

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Semantic norms for properties produced by native speakers are valuable tools for researchers interested in the structure of semantic memory and in category-specific semantic deficits in individuals following brain damage. The aims of this study were threefold. First, we sought to extend existing semantic norms by adopting an empirical approach to category (Exp. 1) and concept (Exp. 2) selection, in order to obtain a more representative set of semantic memory features. Second, we extensively outlined a new set of semantic production norms collected from Italian native speakers for 120 artifactual and natural basic-level concepts, using numerous measures and statistics following a featurelisting task (Exp. 3b). Finally, we aimed to create a new publicly accessible database, since only a few existing databases are publicly available online.

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Semantic memory: A feature-based analysis and new norms for Italian

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“…For example, in the case of the English language, norms have been developed not only in the USA (Van Overschelde et al, 2004), but also in Australia (Casey & Heath, 1988) and New Zealand (Marshall & Parr, 1996). In addition, similar materials have been developed for adult speakers of Dutch (Ruts et al, 2004), French (Bueno & Megherbi, 2009), Italian (Boccardi & Cappa, 1997), and Portuguese (Pinto, 1992), to name a few European-origin languages.…”

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Normative data for the 56 categories of Battig and Montague (1969) in Spanish

2014

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Knowledge of specific characteristics of verbal material is imperative in cognitive research, and this need calls for periodical updating of normative data. With this aim, and considering that the most recent Spanish-language category norms for adults date back to more than 30 years ago, and that they do not include some very common categories, a new normative study was conducted. In this study, production data for exemplars in the 56 categories of Battig and Montague (Journal of Experimental Psychology, 80, 1-46, 1969) were collected from a pool of 284 young adults who were native speakers of Spanish using an exemplar production task. With the goal of providing a useful tool for cognitive research to be conducted with Spanish-speaking samples, indices of frequency, rank, and lexical availability for the exemplars of each category are provided in a computerized database. The norms described are available for downloading as supplemental material with this article.

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