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The present study provides Italian normative measures for 266 line drawings belonging to the new set of pictures developed by Lotto, Dell’Acqua, and Job (in press). The pictures have been standardized on the following measures: number of letters, number of syllables, name frequency, within-category typicality, familiarity, age of acquisition, name agreement, and naming time. In addition to providing the measures, the present study focuses on indirect and direct comparisons (i.e., correlations) of the present norms with databases provided by comparable studies in Italian (in which normative data were collected with Snodgrass & Vanderwart’s set of pictures; Nisi, Longoni, & Snodgrass, 2000), in British English (Barry, Morrison, & Ellis, 1997), in American English (Snodgrass & Vanderwart, 1980; Snodgrass & Yuditsky, 1996), in French (Alario & Ferrand, 1999), and in Spanish (Sanfeliu & Fernandez, 1996).
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This work was supported by a START-UP grant (FFMA, 1998) to the authors. The authors are grateful to Anna Conti, Massimo Girelli, Stefania Marcellino, and Daniele Gasparini for help in collecting the data for the present study. The authors are indebted to Pierre Jolicoeur, Judith Kroll, and Gay Snodgrass for useful comments on an earlier version of this paper and to Eraldo Nicotra and Massimiliano Pastore for statistical advice.
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Dell’acqua, R., Lotto, L. & Job, R. Naming times and standardized norms for the italian PD/DPSS set of 266 pictures: Direct comparisons with American, English, French, and Spanish published databases. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers 32, 588–615 (2000). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03200832
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