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The appropriate selection of both pictorial and linguistic experimental stimuli requires a previous languagespecific standardization process of the materials across different variables. Considering that such normative data have not yet been collected for Modern Greek, in this study normative data for the color version of the Snodgrass and Vanderwart picture set (Rossion & Pourtois, 2004) were collected from 330 native Greek adults. Participants named the pictures (providing name agreement ratings) and rated them for visual complexity and age of acquisition. The obtained measures represent a useful tool for further research on Greek language processing and constitute the first picture normative study for this language. The picture norms from this study and previous ones may be downloaded from brm.psychonomic-journals.org/content/supplemental.
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This research has been supported by Grants SEJ2006-09238/PSIC and CONSOLIDER-INGENIO 2010 CSD2008-00048 from the Spanish government and by Grant BFI05.310 from the Basque government.
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Dimitropoulou, M., Duñabeitia, J.A., Blitsas, P. et al. A standardized set of 260 pictures for Modern Greek: Norms for name agreement, age of acquisition, and visual complexity. Behavior Research Methods 41, 584–589 (2009). https://doi.org/10.3758/BRM.41.2.584
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