Lynott, Dermot (2019) Sensorimotor Norms: Perception and Action Strength norms for 40,000 words. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. pp. 728-734. ISSN 1069-7977
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Abstract
Sensorimotor information plays a fundamental role in
cognition. However, datasets of ratings of sensorimotor
experience have generally been restricted to several hundred
words, leading to limited linguistic coverage and reduced
statistical power for more complex analyses. Here, we present
modality-specific and effector-specific norms for 39,954
concepts across six sensory modalities (touch, hearing, smell,
taste, vision, and interoception) and five action effectors
(mouth/throat, hand/arm, foot/leg, head excluding mouth, and
torso), which were gathered from 4,557 participants who
completed a total of 32,456 surveys using Amazon's
Mechanical Turk platform. The dataset therefore represents
one of the largest set of semantic norms currently available.
We describe the data collection procedures, provide summary
descriptives of the data set, demonstrate the utility of the
norms in predicting lexical decision times and accuracy, as
well as offering new insights and outlining avenues for future
research. Our findings will be of interest to researchers in
embodied cognition, cognitive semantics, sensorimotor
processing, and the psychology of language generally. The
scale of this dataset will also facilitate computational
modelling and big data approaches to the analysis of language
and conceptual representations.
Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | embodied cognition; semantics; norms; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Science and Engineering > Psychology |
Item ID: | 17656 |
Depositing User: | Dermot Lynott |
Date Deposited: | 10 Oct 2023 10:31 |
Journal or Publication Title: | Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society |
Publisher: | Cognitive Science Society |
Refereed: | Yes |
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URI: | https://mu.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/17656 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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