Spanish semantic feature production norms for 400 concrete concepts

VIVAS, J.; VIVAS, L.; COMESAÑA, A.; GARCÍA CONI, A.; VORANO, A.

Behavior Research Methods

Springer

Lugar: Madison, WI; Año: 2017 vol. 49 p. 1095 - 1106

Semantic feature production norms provide many quantitativemeasures of different feature and concept variables that arenecessary to solve some debates surrounding the nature of theorganization, both normal and pathological, of semantic memory.Despite the current existence of norms for different languages,there are still no published norms in Spanish. This article presentsa new set of norms collected from 810 participants for 400 living and non living concepts among Spanish speakers. These normsconsist of empirical collections of features that people used todescribe the concepts. Four files were elaborated: a concept?feature file, a concept?concept matrix, a feature?feature matrix,and a significantly correlated features file. We expect that thesenorms will be useful for researchers in the fields of experimentalpsychology, neuropsychology, and psycholinguistics.