A new set of 299 pictures with French norms for name agreement, image agreement, conceptual familiarity, visual complexity, image variability, age of acquisition, and naming latencies



This page provides the pictures and the norms that are discussed in Bonin P., Peereman R, Malardier, N., Méot A. and Chalard M., 2003, A new set of 299 pictures for psycholinguistic studies: French norms for name agreement, image agreement, conceptual familiarity, visual complexity, image variability, age of acquisition, and naming latencies, Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 35 , 158-167. https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03195507 (PDF)


Abstract. Pictures are often used as stimuli in studies of perception, language,and memory. Since performances on different sets of pictures are generally contrasted, stimulus selection requires the use of standardized material to match pictures across different variables. Unfortunately, the number of standardized pictures available for empirical research is rather limited. The aim of the present study is to provide French normative data for a new set of 299 black-and-white drawings. Alario and Ferrand (1999) were closely followed in that the pictures were standardized on six variables:name agreement,image agreement, conceptual familiarity,visual complexity, image variability,and age of acquisition. Objective frequency measures are also provided for the most common names associated with the pictures. Comparative analyses between our resultsand the norms obtained in other, similar studies are reported. Finally, naming latencies corresponding to the set of pictures were also collected from French native speakers, and correlational/multiple-regressionanalyses were performed on naming latencies.This new set of standardized pictures is available on the Internet (http://leadserv.u-bourgogne.fr/bases/pictures/; website is down) and should be of great use to researchers when they select pictorial stimuli.


The norms can be downloaded in two different formats:
- In Excel format (.xls)
- In Text format (.txt tab delimited)


Click here to download the 299 pictures (in .gif format)
The pictures are included in a .zip archive




Contact

• Ronald Peereman, Université Grenoble-Alpes, Laboratoire de Psychologie et NeuroCognition (LPNC).
ronald.peereman@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr

• Patrick Bonin, Université de Bourgogne, Laboratoire d'Etude de l'apprentissage et du Développement (LEAD).
patrick.bonin@u-bourgogne.fr