A Cross-Culturally Standardized Set of Pictures for Younger and Older Adults:  American and Chinese Norms for Name Agreement, Concept Agreement and Familiarity

 

 

 

Data Files
Pictnorm1

Pictnorm2 

Pictnorm3

Publications

Cross-Study Comparisons:
(HTML)
(XLS)

Overview of Research

The following links are to downloadable versions of 4 data files for the Picture Norming Project.  Files in Excel (.xls) format contain Chinese characters encoded using NJ Star software, and may not work properly with other Chinese TrueType Fonts.  Either of the following can be used: Chinese Auto-Simplified or Chinese Big5 Simplified.

 

Use of Microsoft Internet Explorer is recommended for the HTML files.


 

  1. Pictnorm1 

 

Main dependent measures (familiarity, H - value, name agreement percentage, concept agreement percentage), and name responses included in name agreement and concept agreement percentages for 260 Snodgrass & Vanderwart (1980) pictures, for each cultural by age group

 
 

  1. Pictnorm2 

 

Raw frequency counts of naming errors and all dominant and non-dominant name responses for 260 Snodgrass & Vanderwart (1980) pictures, for each cultural by age group

 
 

  1. Pictnorm3 

 

Comparisons of picture norming data for younger American adults from Yoon et al. (2004) and Snodgrass & Vanderwart (1980)

 

 

  1. Cross-Study Comparisons 

 

Proportions for name and concept agreement, along with two-sample tests of proportional differences, for four studies [UM = Yoon et al. (2004); Bates = Bates et al. (2003) and the International Picture Naming Project; SY = Snodgrass & Yuditsky (1996); SV = Snodgrass & Vanderwart (1980)]).

 

 

PICTNORM1

Main Dependent Measures (Familiarity, H - Value, Name Agreement Percentage, Concept Agreement Percentage) And Name Responses And Counts (Included In Name Agreement And Concept Agreement Percentages) For 260 Snodgrass & Vanderwart (1980)1 Pictures, For Each Cultural By Age Group 

2 downloadable versions: 

pndata1.xls (Excel format)

pndata1.htm (HTML)
 

1 Snodgrass, J.G., & Vanderwart, M. (1980). A standardized set of 260 pictures: Norms for name agreement, image agreement, familiarity, and visual complexity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 6, 174-215. 

PICTNORM2

Raw Frequency Counts Of Naming Errors And All Dominant And Non-Dominant Name Responses For 260 Snodgrass & Vanderwart (1980)1 Pictures, For Each Cultural By Age Group.2

2 downloadable versions: 

pndata2.xls (Excel format)

pndata2.htm (HTML)
 

1  Snodgrass, J.G., & Vanderwart, M. (1980). A standardized set of 260 pictures: Norms for name agreement, image agreement, familiarity, and visual complexity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 6, 174-215. 

2  Subsets of these data appear in: Yoon, C., Feinberg, F., Luo, T., Hedden, T., Gutchess, A.H., Chen, H.Y., Mikels, J.A., Jiao, S., & Park, D.C. (2004). A Cross-Culturally Standardized Set of Pictures for Younger and Older Adults:  American and Chinese Norms for Name Agreement, Concept Agreement and Familiarity. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 36(4), 639-649. 

PICTNORM3

Comparisons Of Picture Norming Data From Yoon Et Al. (2004) 1 And Snodgrass & Vanderwart (1980) 2

2 downloadable versions: 

pndata3.xls (Excel format)

pndata3.htm (HTML)
 

1  Yoon, C., Feinberg, F., Luo, T., Hedden, T., Gutchess, A.H., Chen, H.Y., Mikels, J.A., Jiao, S., & Park, D.C. (2004). A Cross-Culturally Standardized Set of Pictures for Younger and Older Adults:  American and Chinese Norms for Name Agreement, Concept Agreement and Familiarity. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 36(4), 639-649.

2  Snodgrass, J.G., & Vanderwart, M. (1980). A standardized set of 260 pictures: Norms for name agreement, image agreement, familiarity, and visual complexity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 6, 174-215. 

CROSS-STUDY COMPARISONS

2 downloadable versions: 

P_Value_Comparisons_1.xls (Excel format)

P_Value_Comparisons_1.htm (HTML)

 

The following two sheets contain raw proportions for name and concept agreement for four studies (as below), along with two-sample tests of proportional differences.

Tests appear in blocks of ten, for each of the ten sets of numbers below, keyed to two picture numbering systems (Snodgrass and Vanderwart's original, and that of IPNP / Bates et al.)

 

 

SV #

Original Snodgrass and Vanderwart Picture Number

IPNP #

Number Assigned by Bates et al. (2003) and International Picture Naming Project

Picture

Name of Picture

 

 

UM_Eng_Name

Picture Name, English - University of Michigan Project

UM_Eng_Conc

Picture Concept, English - University of Michigan Project

 

 

UM_Chn_Name

Picture Name, Chinese - University of Michigan Project

UM_Chn_Conc

Picture Concept, Chinese - University of Michigan Project

 

 

SV_Eng_Name

Picture Name, English - Snodgrass and Vanderwart (1980)

SV_Eng_Conc

Picture Concept, English - Snodgrass and Vanderwart (1980)

 

 

SY_Eng_Exp_1

Picture Name, English - Snodgrass and Yuditsky

SY_Eng_Exp_2

Picture Concept, English - Snodgrass and Yuditsky (1996)

 

 

Bates_Eng

Picture Name, English - Bates et al. (2003) and International Picture Naming Project

Bates_Chin

Picture Concept, English - Bates et al. (2003) and International Picture Naming Project

 

References: 

Bates, E., D’Amico, S., Jacobsen, T., Székely, A., Andonova, E., Devescovi, A., Herron, D., Lu, C-C., Pechmann, T., Pleh, C., Wicha, N.Y.Y., Federmeier, K.D., Gerdjikova, I., Gutierrez, G., Hung, D., Hsu, J., Iyer, G., Kohnert, K., Mehotcheva, T., Orozco-Figueroa, A., Tzeng, A., & Tzeng, O. (2003). Timed picture naming in seven languages. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 10(2), 344-380.

Snodgrass, J. G., & Yuditsky, T. (1996). Naming times for the Snodgrass and Vanderwart pictures. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 28(4), 516-536.

Snodgrass, J.G., & Vanderwart, M. (1980). A standardized set of 260 pictures: Norms for name agreement, image agreement, familiarity, and visual complexity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 6, 174-215.

Yoon, C., Feinberg, F., Luo, T., Hedden, T., Gutchess, A.H., Chen, H.Y., Mikels, J.A., Jiao, S., & Park, D.C. (2004). A Cross-Culturally Standardized Set of Pictures for Younger and Older Adults:  American and Chinese Norms for Name Agreement, Concept Agreement and Familiarity. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 36(4), 639-649.

 

For more information, please contact:


Carolyn Yoon, Ph.D. 

Institute for Social Research, Room 5255


426 Thompson St. 
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, 48104-2321

Telephone: 734-936-2121
Fax: 734-764-3576
E-mail: yoonc@umich.edu

 

 

Investigators

Carolyn Yoon, Ph.D.

University of Michigan Business School 
Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan

Fred Feinberg, Ph.D.

University of Michigan Business School

Ting Luo, Ph.D.
Institute of Psychology
ChineseAcademy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Trey Hedden, Ph.D.
Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan

Angela Hall Gutchess, Ph.D.
Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan

Hiu Ying Chen
Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan

Joe Mikels, Ph.D.
Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan

Shulan Jiao, Ph.D.
Institute of Psychology
ChineseAcademy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Denise C. Park, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology

University of Illinois and Beckman Institute