[en] Concreteness, imageability or emotional valence are known to determine performance in different psycholinguistic tasks. Yet, existing databases for these psycholinguistic parameters in the French language are limited and the difference between imageability and concreteness is often neglected. The present work extends existing database by providing imageability, concreteness and emotional valence values for 177 nouns and 165 verbs. Data were collected from 258 native French speakers from France and Belgium. We provide mean imageability, concreteness and emotional valence values, as well as inter-rater reliability values for each value and stimulus. The database is available on https://osf.io/453ft/.
Research Center/Unit :
PsyNCog - Psychologie et Neuroscience Cognitives - ULiège
Disciplines :
Theoretical & cognitive psychology
Author, co-author :
Gregoire, Coline ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de Psychologie > Mémoire et langage
Villatte, Jérémy; Université de Poitiers > Département de Psychologie > Centre de Recherche sur la Cognition et l’Apprentissage, UMR-CNRS 7295
Taconnat, Laurence; Université de Tours > Département de Psychologie > Centre de Recherche sur la Cognition et l’Apprentissage, UMR-CNRS 7295
Majerus, Steve ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Psychologie et Neuroscience Cognitives (PsyNCog) ; F.R.S.-FNRS - Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique [BE]
Language :
English
Title :
A database distinguishing concreteness, imageability and emotional valence values for nouns and verbs in French
Alternative titles :
[fr] Une base de données distinguant concrétude, imageabilité et valence émotionnelle pour des noms et des verbes en français
Original title :
[en] A database distinguishing concreteness, imageability and emotional valence values for nouns and verbs in French
Publication date :
23 December 2024
Journal title :
Année Psychologique
ISSN :
0003-5033
Publisher :
Presses Universitaires de France, France
Volume :
124
Issue :
2024/4
Pages :
473-523
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Funders :
ULiège - Université de Liège
Funding text :
This work was supported by a Human Sciences Doctoral Research Grant, BSH-2018 (ULiège) awarded to the first author.
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