First semantic feature production norms for 400 concrete concepts

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

Rosario

Congreso; VI Congreso Regional de la Sociedad Interamericana de Psicología; 2016

Sociedad Interamericana de Psicología

In the current poster we present the first Spanish Semantic Feature Production Norms.They provide many quantitative measures of different feature and concept variablesthat are useful for theoretical and experimental issues regarding semantic memory.The information they supply can be of interest for researchers in the fields ofexperimental psychology, neuropsychology and psycholinguistics. Despite the currentexistence of norms for English, Italian and German population, there are still nopublished norms in Spanish. We present a new set of norms collected for 400 livingand nonliving concepts. Participants were 810 grade students (age 20-40) nativeSpanish speakers. They were asked to give as many features as possible to describeconcepts. Each participant produced features for 15 concepts. Data were unified andcodified. Then many concept and feature variables were calculated. As a result fourmatrixes were elaborated: a concept-feature matrix, a concept-concept matrix, afeature-feature matrix and a significantly correlated features matrix. We present thevariables included in this four matrixes.