Sensorimotor Norms for 506 Russian Nouns

Alex Miklashevsky


Abstract
Embodied cognitive science suggested a number of variables describing our sensorimotor experience associated with different concepts: modality experience rating (i.e., relationship between words and images of a particular perceptive modality—visual, auditory, haptic etc.), manipulability (the necessity for an object to interact with human hands in order to perform its function), vertical spatial localization. According to the embodied cognition theory, these semantic variables capture our mental representations and thus should influence word learning, processing and production. However, it is not clear how these new variables are related to such traditional variables as imageability, age of acquisition (AoA) and word frequency. In the presented database, normative data on the modality (visual, auditory, haptic, olfactory, and gustatory) ratings, vertical spatial localization of the object, manipulability, imageability, age of acquisition, and subjective frequency for 506 Russian nouns are collected. Factor analysis revealed four factors: (1) visual and haptic modality ratings were combined with imageability, manipulability and AoA; (2) word length, frequency and AoA; (3) olfactory modality was united with gustatory; (4) spatial localization only was included in the fourth factor. The database is available online together with a publication describing the method of data collection and data parameters (Miklashevsky, 2018).
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2020.lincr-1.8
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Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Linguistic and Neurocognitive Resources
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May
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2020
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Marseille, France
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Emmanuele Chersoni, Barry Devereux, Chu-Ren Huang
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LiNCr
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European Language Resources Association
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59–60
Language:
English
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.lincr-1.8
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Alex Miklashevsky. 2020. Sensorimotor Norms for 506 Russian Nouns. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Linguistic and Neurocognitive Resources, pages 59–60, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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Sensorimotor Norms for 506 Russian Nouns (Miklashevsky, LiNCr 2020)
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