Psycholinguistic norms and face naming times for photographs of celebrities in French
Category
Journal Article
Authors
Bonin, P., Perret, C., Méot, A., Ferrand, L., Mermillod, M.
Year
2008
Title
Psycholinguistic norms and face naming times for photographs of celebrities in French
Journal / book / conference
Behavior Research Methods
Abstract
A set of 105 photographs of celebrities has been standardized in French on distinctiveness, proper name agreement, face agreement, age of acquisition (AoA), and subjective frequency. Statistics on the collected variables for photographs are provided. The relationships between these variables have been analyzed. Face naming latencies have also been collected for the photographs of celebrities, and several multiple regression analyses have been carried out on naming latencies and percentages of tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) phenomena. The main determinants of naming speed included AoA, face agreement, and name agreement. In addition, AoA, together with distinctiveness and face agreement, reliably predicted the percentages of TOTs. The norms, photographs of the celebrities, and spoken naming latencies corresponding to the celebrities are available on the Internet at norms.celebrities.googlepages.com and should be of great use to researchers interested in the processing of famous people.
Issue
1
Volume
40
Pages
137-146