Perceptual and Motor Attribute Ratings for 559 Object Concepts

摘要

To understand how and when object knowledge influences the neural underpinnings of language comprehension and linguistic behavior, it is critical to determine the specific kinds of knowledge people have. To extend currently available normative data, we report a relatively more comprehensive set of object attribute rating norms for 559 concrete object nouns, each rated on seven attributes corresponding to sensory and motor modalities: color, motion, sound, smell, taste, graspability, and pain, in addition to familiarity (376 raters, mean 23 raters per item). Mean ratings were subjected to principal component analysis, revealing two primary dimensions plausibly interpreted as relating to survival. We demonstrate the utility of these ratings in accounting for lexical and semantic decision latencies. These ratings should prove useful for the design and interpretation of experimental tests of conceptual and perceptual object processing. The complete stimuli and norms may be downloaded from .