Deptarment of Psychology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Largo Gemelli 1, 20123, Milan, Italy.
IRCCS Mondino Neurological Institute, Pavia, Italy.
Behav Res Methods. 2023 Dec;55(8):4035-4047. doi: 10.3758/s13428-022-02004-1. Epub 2022 Oct 28.
Neuroscience research has provided evidence that semantic information is stored in a distributed brain network involved in sensorimotor and linguistic processing. More specifically, according to the embodied cognition accounts, the representation of concepts is deemed as grounded in our bodily states. For these reasons, normative measures of words should provide relevant information about the extent to which each word embeds perceptual and action properties. In the present study, we collected ratings for 959 Italian nouns and verbs from 398 volunteers, recruited via an online platform. The words were mostly taken from the Italian adaptation of the Affective Norms for English Words (ANEW). A pool of 145 verbs was added to the original set. All the words were rated on 11 sensorimotor dimensions: six perceptual modalities (vision, audition, taste, smell, touch, and interoception) and five effectors (hand-arm, foot-leg, torso, mouth, head). The new verbs were also rated on the ANEW dimensions. Results showed good reliability and consistency with previous studies. Relations between perceptual and motor dimensions are described and interpreted, along with relations between the sensorimotor and the affective dimensions. The currently developed dataset represents an important novelty, as it includes different word classes, i.e., both nouns and verbs, and integrates ratings of both sensorimotor and affective dimensions, along with other psycholinguistic parameters; all features only partially accomplished in previous studies.
神经科学研究提供了证据，表明语义信息存储在涉及感觉运动和语言处理的分布式大脑网络中。更具体地说，根据具身认知理论，概念的表示被认为是基于我们的身体状态。出于这些原因，规范的词汇测量应该提供关于每个词汇嵌入感知和动作属性的程度的相关信息。在本研究中，我们从通过在线平台招募的 398 名志愿者那里收集了 959 个意大利语名词和动词的评分。这些词主要取自意大利语版的情感规范英语词（ANEW）。一组 145 个动词被添加到原始集合中。所有的词都在 11 个感觉运动维度上进行了评价：六个感觉模式（视觉、听觉、味觉、嗅觉、触觉和内感受）和五个效应器（手-臂、脚-腿、躯干、嘴、头）。新动词也在 ANEW 维度上进行了评价。结果显示了良好的可靠性和与先前研究的一致性。描述并解释了感知和运动维度之间的关系，以及感觉运动和情感维度之间的关系。目前开发的数据集是一个重要的创新，因为它包括了不同的词类，即名词和动词，并整合了感觉运动和情感维度的评价，以及其他心理语言参数；所有这些特征在前人的研究中都只部分完成。
