Spanish semantic feature production norms for 400 concrete concepts

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

Behavior Reseach Methods

Psychonimic Society

Año: 2017 vol. 49 p. 1095 - 1106

Semantic feature production norms provide many quantitative measures of different feature and concept variables that are necessary to solve some debates surrounding the nature of the organization, both normal and pathological, of semantic memory. Despite the current existence of norms for English, Italian and German population different languages, there are still no published norms in Spanish. This article presents a new set of norms collected from 810 participants for 400 living and nonliving concepts for Spanish speakers. These norms consist of empirical collections of features that people use to describe 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 these norms will be very useful for researchers in the fields of experimental psychology, neuropsychology and psycholinguistics.