English verbs semantic norms database: Concreteness, embodiment, imageability, valence and arousal ratings for 3,500 verbs.

IF 4.6 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL

Behavior Research Methods Pub Date : 2025-04-23 DOI:10.3758/s13428-025-02675-6

Emiko J Muraki, Penny M Pexman

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Abstract

Semantic ratings studies have resulted in significant methodological advances towards understanding the importance of experiential information to lexical-semantic processing. Yet, the existing norms are biased towards nouns, with fewer ratings available for verbs. In the present study, we collected new semantic rating norms for 3,512 verbs on the dimensions of concreteness, embodiment, imageability, valence, and arousal. The resulting ratings provide the largest database of verb-specific rating norms across multiple semantic dimensions. They show good reliability and validity on four of five dimensions, with some evident challenges in rating arousal for the verb stimuli. We demonstrate that the norms account for variance in response latencies and accuracy in a lexical decision task, word recognition task, and recognition memory, above and beyond dimensions such as length, frequency, orthographic Levenshtein distance, and age of acquisition, and thus that semantic richness effects are observed in verb processing. The norms described here should be a useful resource for researchers interested in verb lexical-semantic processing.

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英语动词语义规范数据库：3,500个动词的具体性、具体化、可想像性、效价和唤醒等级。

语义评级研究在理解经验信息对词汇语义处理的重要性方面取得了显著的方法论进展。然而，现有的规范偏向于名词，对动词的评分较少。在本研究中，我们收集了3512个动词在具体、体现、可想象、效价和唤起等维度上的新的语义评级规范。由此产生的评分提供了跨多个语义维度的最大的动词特定评分规范数据库。它们在五个维度中的四个维度上显示出良好的信度和效度，但在对动词刺激的唤醒程度进行评级方面存在一些明显的挑战。我们证明，在词汇决策任务、单词识别任务和识别记忆中，规范解释了响应延迟和准确性的差异，超出了长度、频率、正字法Levenshtein距离和习得年龄等维度，因此在动词加工中观察到语义丰富度效应。这里描述的规范应该是对动词词汇语义处理感兴趣的研究人员的有用资源。

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Behavior Research Methods Multiple-

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10.30

自引率

9.30%

发文量

266

期刊介绍： Behavior Research Methods publishes articles concerned with the methods, techniques, and instrumentation of research in experimental psychology. The journal focuses particularly on the use of computer technology in psychological research. An annual special issue is devoted to this field.