Citation

Díez-Álamo AM, Díez E, Alonso MÁ, Vargas CA, Fernandez A. Behav. Res. Methods 2018; 50(4): 1632-1644.

Affiliation

INICO, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.3758/s13428-017-0970-y

PMID

29052168

Abstract

Subjective ratings of perceptual and motor attributes were obtained for a set of 750 concrete concepts in Spanish by requiring scale-based judgments from a sample of university students (N = 539). Following on the work of Amsel, Urbach, and Kutas (2012), the seven attributes were color, motion, sound, smell, taste, graspability, and pain. Normative data based on the obtained ratings are provided as a tool for future investigations. Additionally, the relationships of these attributes to other lexical dimensions (e.g., familiarity, frequency, concreteness) and the factorial organization of concepts around the main components were analyzed. The pattern of results is consistent with prior findings that highlight the relevance of dimensions related to survival as being crucially involved in conceptual processing.

Language: en

Keywords

Concepts; Motor; Perceptual; Ratings; Spanish norms; Survival