Russian normative data for 375 action pictures and verbs

Behavior Research Methods. 2015. Vol. 47. No. 3. P. 691–707.

Akinina Y., Malyutina S., Ivanova M., Iskra E., Mannova E., Dragoy O.

The present article introduces a Russian-language database of 375 action pictures and associated verbs with normative data. The pictures were normed for name agreement, conceptual familiarity, and subjective visual complexity, and measures of age of acquisition, imageability, and image agreement were collected for the verbs. Values of objective visual complexity, as well as information about verb frequency, length, argument structure, instrumentality, and name relation, are also provided. Correlations between these parameters are presented, along with a comparative analysis of the Russian name agreement norms and those collected in other languages. The full set of pictorial stimuli and the obtained norms may be freely downloaded from http://neuroling.ru/en/db.htm for use in research and for clinical purposes.

Keywords: психолингвистика, psycholinguistics, Verbs, глаголы, Russian norms, action pictures, psycholinguistic stimuli, нормативные параметры, рисунки действий, психолингвистические стимулы

Publication based on the results of: ­­­­­­Language norm and pathology: continuum of linguistic effects (2013)