IMABASE: A new set of 313 colourised line drawings standardised in French for name agreement, image agreement, conceptual familiarity, age-of-acquisition, and imageability

Abstract

<jats:p> We provide normative data for a new set of 313 colourised line drawings. The drawings were standardised on name agreement ( N = 60 participants), image agreement ( N = 34), conceptual familiarity ( N = 36), age of acquisition ( N = 35), and imageability ( N = 35). Objective visual complexity measures are given for the pictures, and objective word frequencies are provided for the modal names of the drawings. Reliability measures for the collected norms are very high. There are high levels of agreement between the names given by the participants and the drawings and comparative analyses indicate that the distribution of name agreement scores is very similar in both our own database and the MultiPic database (Duñabeitia et al., 2018). A novel “picture-choice task” used to assess name-image agreement ( N = 30) reveals that the great majority of the IMABASE pictures that are also present in MultiPic are rated as providing better pictorial representations of the corresponding concepts. Finally, most of the correlations are comparable with those reported in other normative studies on colourised drawings. The whole set of pictures is freely available from https://leadserv.u-bourgogne.fr/~lead/imabase/ and the norms are available as Supplementary Material. </jats:p>

Spatial-positional association of response codes is modulated by the number of items in working memory

“…"Banane" (banana), "Cerise" (cherry), "Citron" (lemon), "Framboise" (raspberry), "Grenade" (pomegranate), "Kiwi" (kiwi), "Myrtille" (blueberry), "Orange" (orange), "Pastèque" (watermelon), and "Raisin" (grape). The fruits were represented using colored drawings (from the IMABASE database of Bonin et al, 2020). All stimuli corresponded to bisyllabic words whose frequency was controlled.…”

Naming in a multilingual context: Norms for the ICMR-Manipal colour picture corpus in Kannada from the Indian context

“…General-purpose corpora, on the other hand, usually contain a large set of pictures that have been rated on various psycholinguistic properties such as imageability, familiarity, and visual complexity, and evaluated for name agreement with a group of speakers of the language under inquiry. The pictures in such corpora often include object pictures to elicit nouns that belong to common categories such as vehicles, vegetables, animals, and clothing (e.g., Bonin et al, 2020;Brodeur et al, 2010Brodeur et al, , 2014Dunabeitia et al, 2018;Hebart et al, 2019;Snodgrass & Vanderwart, 1980;Szekely et al, 2004), and, less commonly, action pictures to elicit verbs (e.g., Ahmed et al, 2022;Szekely et al, 2004). The standardized set of 260 object pictures developed and validated by Snodgrass and Vanderwart (1980) is one of the most widely used general-purpose corpora for English.…”