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The present article provides French normative measures for 400 line drawings taken from Cycowicz, Friedman, Rothstein, and Snodgrass (1997), including the 260 line drawings that were normed by Snodgrass and Vanderwart (1980). The pictures have been standardized on the following variables: name agreement, image agreement, familiarity, visual complexity, image variability, and age of acquisition. These normative data also include word frequency values and the first verbal associate (taken from Ferrand & Alario, 1998). The six variables obtained are important because of their potential effect in many fields of psychology, especially the study of cognitive processes such as visual perception, language, and memory.
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This research was supported by a grant from the Direction de la Recherche et de la Technologie (a division of the Direction Générale de l’Armement) to the first author. We are grateful to Robert Proctor, Joan Gay Snodgrass, Carmen Sanfeliu, Ronald Peereman, and Juan Segui for helpful feedback on an earlier version of this manuscript. Thanks are extended to Carmen Sanfeliu for sending the set of data for Spanish and English.
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Alario, FX., Ferrand, L. A set of 400 pictures standardized for French: Norms for name agreement, image agreement, familiarity, visual complexity, image variability, and age of acquisition. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers 31, 531–552 (1999). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03200732
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