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North-American Norms for Name Disagreement: Pictorial Stimuli Naming Discrepancies
- Source :
- PLoS ONE, PLoS ONE, Vol 7, Iss 10, p e47802 (2012)
- Publication Year :
- 2012
- Publisher :
- Public Library of Science, 2012.
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Abstract
- Pictorial stimuli are commonly used by scientists to explore central processes; including memory, attention, and language. Pictures that have been collected and put into sets for these purposes often contain visual ambiguities that lead to name disagreement amongst subjects. In the present work, we propose new norms which reflect these sources of name disagreement, and we apply this method to two sets of pictures: the Snodgrass and Vanderwart (S&V) set and the Bank of Standardized Stimuli (BOSS). Naming responses of the presented pictures were classified within response categories based on whether they were correct, incorrect, or equivocal. To characterize the naming strategy where an alternative name was being used, responses were further divided into different sub-categories that reflected various sources of name disagreement. Naming strategies were also compared across the two sets of stimuli. Results showed that the pictures of the S&V set and the BOSS were more likely to elicit alternative specific and equivocal names, respectively. It was also found that the use of incorrect names was not significantly different across stimulus sets but that errors were more likely caused by visual ambiguity in the S&V set and by a misuse of names in the BOSS. Norms for name disagreement presented in this paper are useful for subsequent research for their categorization and elucidation of name disagreement that occurs when choosing visual stimuli from one or both stimulus sets. The sources of disagreement should be examined carefully as they help to provide an explanation of errors and inconsistencies of many concepts during picture naming tasks.
- Subjects :
- Male
Visual perception
Visual System
lcsh:Medicine
Information Storage and Retrieval
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Behavioral Neuroscience
0302 clinical medicine
Cognition
Learning and Memory
Human Performance
Psychology
Names
Attention
lcsh:Science
Neurolinguistics
Information Science
media_common
Language
Multidisciplinary
Psycholinguistics
05 social sciences
Ambiguity
Middle Aged
Sensory Systems
Semantics
Categorization
Pattern Recognition, Visual
Visual Perception
Sensory Perception
Female
Picture naming
Cognitive psychology
Research Article
Adult
media_common.quotation_subject
Cognitive Neuroscience
Biology
Stimulus (physiology)
050105 experimental psychology
03 medical and health sciences
Neuropsychology
Memory
Learning
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Working Memory
Behavior
Models, Statistical
Verbal Behavior
lcsh:R
Cognitive Psychology
Linguistics
Communications
Form Perception
Pictorial stimuli
Boss
Sociolinguistics
North America
Recall
lcsh:Q
Snodgrass
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Neuroscience
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Volume :
- 7
- Issue :
- 10
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PLoS ONE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....219e844e10eff7f974f2ba9986af1ddc