Predicting high variability in imageability ratings across age groups and its influence on visual word recognition

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Julkaisussa:Behavior Research Methods (Online) vol. 57, no. 1 (Jan 2025), p. 8
Päätekijä: Aka, Sandra
Muut tekijät: Mathey, Stéphanie
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520 3 |a Imageability, an important word characteristic in the psycholinguistic literature, is typically assessed by asking participants to estimate the ease with which a word can evoke a mental image. Our aim was to explore inter-rater disagreement in normative imageability ratings. We examined the predictors of variability around average imageability ratings for young, middle-aged and older adults (Study 1) and assessed its impact on visual word recognition performance in young adults (Study 2). Analyses of French age-related imageability ratings (Ballot et al., Behavior Research Methods, 54, 196–215, 2022) revealed that inter-rater disagreement around the average imageability value was critically high for most words within the imageability norms, thus questioning the construct validity of the average rating for the most variable items. Variability in ratings changed between age groups (18-25, 26-40, 41-59, and over 60 years) and was associated with words that are longer, less frequent, learnt later in life and less emotional (Study 1). To examine the consequences of elevated standard deviations around the average imageability rating on visual word recognition, we entered this factor in a hierarchical regression alongside classic lexico-semantic predictors. The effect of word-imageability on young adults’ lexical decision times (Ferrand et al., Behavior Research Methods, 50, 1285–1307, 2018) remained significant after accounting for inter-rater disagreement in imageability ratings, even when considering the least consensual words (Study 2). We conclude that imageability ratings reliably predict visual word recognition performance in young adults for large datasets, but might require caution for smaller ones. Given imageability rating differences across adulthood, further research investigating age-related differences in language processing is necessary. 
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653 |a French language 
653 |a Ratings & rankings 
653 |a Age groups 
653 |a Datasets 
653 |a Young adults 
653 |a Disputes 
653 |a Word recognition 
653 |a Language processing 
653 |a Research 
653 |a Pattern recognition 
653 |a Averages 
653 |a Imageability 
653 |a Middle age 
653 |a Age 
653 |a Older people 
653 |a Lexical semantics 
653 |a Acknowledgment 
653 |a Research methodology 
653 |a Cognition & reasoning 
653 |a Adults 
653 |a Word processing 
653 |a Psycholinguistics 
653 |a Variability 
653 |a Semantics 
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