In this work, we present two complementary methods for the expansion of psycholinguistics norms. The first method is a randomtraversal spreading activation approach which transfers existing norms onto semantically related terms using notions of synonymy, hypernymy, and pertainymy to approach full coverage of the English language. The second method makes use of recent advances in distributional ...

We examined the effects of sensorimotor experience in two visual word recognition tasks. Body-object interaction (BOI) ratings were collected for a large set of words. These ratings assess perceptions of the ease with which a human body can physically interact with a word's referent. A set of high BOI words (e.g., mask) and a set of low BOI words (e.g., ship) were created, matched on imageabili...

Understanding the neural representation of semantic concepts is at the core of understanding human knowledge and experience. Competing cognitive theories suggest that these neural representations are based on either a unitary semantic code or on multiple semantic codes. We contrasted these theories using event-related fMRI in a semantic priming study. Pairs of words were presented that were eit...

Psycholinguistic properties of words have been used in various approaches to Natural Language Processing tasks, such as text simplification and readability assessment. Most of these properties are subjective, involving costly and time-consuming surveys to be gathered. Recent approaches use the limited datasets of psycholinguistic properties to extend them automatically to large lexicons. Howeve...

In the year 1914, Francis N. Maxfield constructed a set of cubes somewhat larger than but colored like the color cubes now Manufactured by the Embossing Company and proceeded to use them in the Psychological Laboratory and Clinic of the University ?f Pennsylvania in a study of the imageability of children. Although the material has been changed to the commercial cubes mentioned above, the exper...

In a recent study, Bireta et al. (2010) suggested that when participants are required to recall lists of items in the reverse order, more attention is devoted to the recall of order at the expense of item information, leading to the abolition of item-based phenomena (the item and order trade-off hypothesis). In order to test the item and order trade-off hypothesis, we manipulated 4 lexical fact...

In urbanized settlements, ensuring access to the outdoor environment is essential stimulate well-being responses indoors. Windows provide aesthetic and natural features bring in clues about time, weather, seasonal conditions outdoors. Although dynamic environmental attributes are inherent view qualities, no studies have explored effects induced by such on individuals, limiting extent which thes...

To eliminate mismatches between the intentions of questioners and respondents, we have conducted impression evaluation experiment and nine factors are obtained. Factor scores of the statements used in the experiments are obtained. Those of other statements, however, cannot be obtained. This paper proposes a method of estimating the factor scores of other statements through multiple regression a...

This article describes a Windows program that enables users to obtain a broad range of statistics concerning the properties of word and nonword stimuli, including measures of word frequency, orthographic similarity, orthographic and phonological structure, age of acquisition, and imageability. It is designed for use by researchers in psycholinguistics, particularly those concerned with recognit...