Concreteness, imagery, and meaningfulness values for 925 nouns.

By Allan Paivio, J. Yuille, S. Madigan. 1968

Subfields: Cognitive Science & Psychology, Linguistics

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Towards fairer datasets: filtering and balancing the distribution of the people subtree in the ImageNet hierarchy (2019, methodology): “Extensive research in psycholinguistics has studied the imageability (a.k.a. imagery) of words [5, 9, 17, 32, 57, 58], which is defined as “the ease with which the word arouses imagery” [58].”
Factors that determine false recall: A multiple regression analysis (2001, methodology): “Concreteness ratings for each critical item were obtained from the word association norms of Nelson et al. (1999), which were, in turn, obtained in part from the Paivio, Yuille, and Madigan (1968) and the Toglia and Battig (1978) norms.”
The effects of online product presentation on consumer responses: A mental imagery perspective (2014, background): “Concreteness also evokes a level of sensory experience (Paivio et al., 1968; Schwanenflugel, Harnishfeger, & Stowe, 1988).”
Computerized Neurocognitive Scanning: I. Methodology and Validation in Healthy People (2001, methodology): “New distractors are presented at each delay (for a total of 40) and are equated for frequency, length, concreteness, and imageability using Paivio’s norms (Paivio et al. 1968).”
Coh-Metrix: Analysis of text on cohesion and language (2004, methodology): “Paivio meaningfulness: This is the rated meaningfulness of the word, based on the norms of Paivio, Yuille, and Madigan (1968) and Gilhooly and Logie (1980), multiplied by 100 to produce a range from 100 to 700.”
Posterior cingulate cortex activation by emotional words: fMRI evidence from a valence decision task (2003, methodology): “Imagery was rated with a 9-point Likert scale derived from Paivio et al. [1968] and validated in 75 consenting subjects rating 48 words from the set of Paivio et al.”
Representing word meaning and order information in a composite holographic lexicon. (2007, methodology): “Plate (2003) has shown, however, that an SRN can learn as well without feedback for error correction; thus, Elman’s notion of supervision in an SRN may be unnecessary.”
Visual and Verbal Communication in the Design of Eco-Label for Green Consumer Products (2004, background): “In the context of cognitive psychology, research has generally shown that pictures (visual communication) are more easily recalled or memorized than words (Kaplan et al., 1968; Lieberman and Culpepper, 1965; Lutz and Lutz, 1978; Paivio, 1969; Paivio et al., 1968a; Sampson, 1970; Scott, 1967).”
Assessing Lexical Proficiency Using Analytic Ratings: A Case for Collocation Accuracy (2014, background): “Words that are highly concrete refer to here-and-now concepts, ideas, and things (Paivio et al. 1968; Toglia and Battig 1978; Gilhooly and Logie 1980).”
A Survey on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing (2021, background): “Gender ladenness is a measure to quantitatively represent a normative rating of the perceived feminine or masculine association of a word [Paivio et al. 1968].”