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Table 1
Sources of Object and Action Naming Stimuli
| Study |
Source |
N° |
| PN-Object |
Snodgrass & Vanderwart, 1980 1 |
174 |
| Alterations of Snodgrass & Vanderwart 1 |
2 |
| Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, 1981 2 |
62 |
| Alterations of Peabody Pict. Vocab. Test, 1981 2 |
8 |
| Martinez - Dronkers set 3 |
39 |
| Abbate & La Chappelle "Pictures Please", 1984 4,5 |
168 |
| Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics 6 |
20 |
| Boston Naming Test, 1983 7 |
5 |
| Oxford "One Thousand Pictures" 8 |
25 |
| Miscellaneous |
17 |
| PN-Action |
Action-naming test, 1986 9 |
27 |
| Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, 1981 1 |
57 |
| Abbate & La Chapelle "Pictures Please", 1984 3,4 |
92 |
| Oxford "One Thousand Pictures" 7 |
89 |
| Miscellaneous |
10 |
- Snodgrass, J.G., & Vanderwart, M. (1980). A standardized set of 260 pictures: Norms for name agreement, familiarity and visual complexity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 6, 174-215.
- Dunn, Lloyd M., & Dunn, Leota M. (1981). Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test -- Revised. Circle Pines, MN: American Guidance Service.
- Picture set used by Martinez, V. A. & Dronkers, N.
- Abbate, M.S., & La Chappelle, N.B. (1984a). Pictures, please! An articulation supplement. Communication Skill Builders, Inc.
- Abbate, M.S., & La Chappelle, N.B. (1984b). Pictures, please! A language supplement. Communication Skill Builders, Inc.
- Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Postbus 310, NL- 6500 AH Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Kaplan, E., Goodglass, H., & Weintraub, S. (1983). Boston Naming Test. Philadelphia: Lee & Febiger.
- Oxford Junior Workbooks. Oxford University Press, UK (1965).
- Loraine, K. Obler & Martin Albert (1986) Action Naming Test.
Table 2
Descriptive Statistics of Dependent Variables
|
OBJECT NAMING
|
ACTION NAMING
|
T-test
|
|
N
|
Mean
|
STD
|
RANGE
|
N
|
Mean
|
STD
|
RANGE
|
P<
|
| % Valid response |
520
|
96.1%
|
|
60-100%
|
275
|
93.5%
|
|
36 - 100%
|
0.01
|
| % No response |
520
|
2.3%
|
|
0-34%
|
275
|
3.9%
|
|
0 - 58%
|
0.01
|
| % Invalid response |
520
|
1.5%
|
|
0-16%
|
275
|
2.6%
|
|
0 - 36%
|
0.01
|
| Number of Types |
520
|
3.35
|
2.28
|
1-18
|
275
|
5.48
|
3.31
|
1 - 17
|
0.01
|
| H statistics |
520
|
0.67
|
0.61
|
0-2.9
|
275
|
1.2
|
0.77
|
0 - 2.88
|
0.01
|
| % Lex 1dom |
520
|
85.0%
|
|
28-100%
|
275
|
71.3%
|
|
21 - 100%
|
0.01
|
| % Lex 2phon |
520
|
3.7%
|
|
0-68%
|
275
|
0.9%
|
|
0 - 50%
|
0.01
|
| % Lex 3syn |
520
|
2.4%
|
|
0-49%
|
275
|
4.3%
|
|
0 - 54%
|
0.01
|
| % Lex 4oth |
520
|
9.0%
|
|
0-63%
|
275
|
23.5%
|
|
0 - 80%
|
0.01
|
| RT total MEAN |
520
|
1041
|
230
|
656-1843
|
275
|
1329
|
288
|
792 - 2491
|
0.01
|
| RT total STD |
520
|
330
|
137
|
87-739
|
275
|
404
|
124
|
132-667
|
0.01
|
| RT target MEAN |
520
|
1019
|
211
|
656-1823
|
275
|
1279
|
270
|
792 - 2276
|
0.01
|
| RT target STD |
520
|
307
|
127
|
87-739
|
275
|
362
|
126
|
122-762
|
0.01
|
| RT Lex2phon MEAN |
163
|
1238
|
398
|
573-3057
|
36
|
1583
|
556
|
640-2730
|
0.01
|
| RT Lex3syn MEAN |
93
|
1334
|
390
|
722-2704
|
82
|
1554
|
375
|
721 - 3222
|
0.01
|
| RT Lex4oth MEAN |
330
|
1339
|
395
|
584-2789
|
242
|
1561
|
336
|
673 - 2845
|
0.01
|
Table 3
Characteristics of the Dominant Object and Action Names
Produced in the Picture Naming Tasks
|
OBJECT NAMING
|
ACTION NAMING
|
T-test
|
| Dominant responses |
N
|
Mean
|
STD
|
RANGE
|
N
|
Mean
|
STD
|
RANGE
|
P<
|
| Length in syllables |
520
|
1.75
|
0.83
|
1 - 5
|
275
|
1.22
|
0.49
|
1 - 3
|
0.01
|
| Length in characters |
520
|
5.89
|
2.22
|
2 - 15
|
275
|
4.63
|
1.23
|
3 - 10
|
0.01
|
| Initial frication |
520
|
28.1%
|
|
0 - 1
|
275
|
27.6%
|
|
0 - 1
|
n.s.
|
| Ln Frequency (CELEX) |
520
|
2.50
|
1.57
|
0 - 7.40
|
275
|
3.52
|
1.52
|
0 - 7.76
|
0.01
|
| Objective AOA (CDI) |
520
|
2.33
|
0.89
|
1 - 3
|
275
|
2.51
|
0.79
|
1 - 3
|
0.01
|
| Obj. Vis. Complexity (Kilobyte) |
520
|
16.74
|
8.93
|
3.7 - 62.2
|
275
|
23.63
|
7.80
|
3.9 - 53.1
|
0.01
|
| Items with shared name |
520
|
4.6%
|
|
0 - 1
|
275
|
23.3%
|
|
0 - 1
|
0.01
|
| Complex words |
520
|
16.3%
|
|
0 - 1
|
275
|
1.1%
|
|
0 - 1
|
0.01
|
| Conceptual Complexity |
520
|
1.22
|
0.59
|
1 - 5
|
275
|
2.76
|
0.82
|
1 - 6
|
0.01
|
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