Journal article
Standardized stimuli and procedures for investigating the retrieval of lexical and conceptual knowledge for actions
Memory & cognition, Vol.25(4), pp.543-569
07/1997
DOI: 10.3758/BF03201129
PMID: 9259631
Abstract
We have developed a set of naming and recognition tests for evaluating the retrieval of lexical and conceptual knowledge for actions. As a first step, normative information about 280 items was collected for the following variables: (1) the naming responses elicited by each item, (2) the degree to which the image of each item agreed with a target name, (3) the familiarity of each depicted action, and (4) the visual complexity of each item. This information was used to develop administration and scoring procedures for a standardized test of action naming. The effectiveness and reliability of these procedures were evaluated in a second experiment. In a third experiment, five tests were developed to probe the retrieval of conceptual knowledge: (1) independently of the production of a naming response, (2) in response to pictorial and nonpictorial stimuli, (3) in terms of the attributes associated with specific actions, and (4) in terms of similarities and differences between various actions.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Standardized stimuli and procedures for investigating the retrieval of lexical and conceptual knowledge for actions
- Creators
- J Fiez - Washington University School of Medicine St. Louis MissouriD Tranel - Department of Neurology University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics 200 Hawkins Drive 52242 Iowa City IA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Memory & cognition, Vol.25(4), pp.543-569
- DOI
- 10.3758/BF03201129
- PMID
- 9259631
- NLM abbreviation
- Mem Cognit
- ISSN
- 0090-502X
- eISSN
- 1532-5946
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag; New York
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 07/1997
- Academic Unit
- Neurology; Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984002319002771
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