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Table 1: Sources of Object and Action Naming Stimuli
Table 2: Descriptive Statistics of Dependent Variables
Table 3: Characteristics of the Dominant Object and Action Names
               Produced in the Picture Naming Tasks

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Table 1
Sources of Object and Action Naming Stimuli

 Study  Source
 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