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Normative data for the 56 categories of Battig and Montague (1969) in Spanish

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Knowledge of specific characteristics of verbal material is imperative in cognitive research, and this need calls for periodical updating of normative data. With this aim, and considering that the most recent Spanish-language category norms for adults date back to more than 30 years ago, and that they do not include some very common categories, a new normative study was conducted. In this study, production data for exemplars in the 56 categories of Battig and Montague (Journal of Experimental Psychology, 80, 1-46, 1969) were collected from a pool of 284 young adults who were native speakers of Spanish using an exemplar production task. With the goal of providing a useful tool for cognitive research to be conducted with Spanish-speaking samples, indices of frequency, rank, and lexical availability for the exemplars of each category are provided in a computerized database. The norms described are available for downloading as supplemental material with this article.

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Alejandra Marful was supported by the Spanish Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, through a Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral scholarship. Additional funding was provided to Emiliano Díez and Angel Fernandez by Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Project PSI2008-05607) and by Universidad de Salamanca (Plan Propio de Apoyo a la Investigación 2013). We thank Fred Feinberg for his help in the calculation of Hellinger Affinity indices.

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Marful, A., Díez, E. & Fernandez, A. Normative data for the 56 categories of Battig and Montague (1969) in Spanish. Behav Res 47, 902–910 (2015). https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-014-0513-8

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