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We present new Spanish norms for object familiarity and rated age of acquisition for 140 pictures taken from Snodgrass and Vanderwart (1980), together with data on visual complexity, image agreement, name agreement, word length (in syllables and phonemes), and five measures of word frequency. The pictures were presented to a group of 64 Spanish subjects, and oral naming latencies were recorded. In a multiple regression analysis, age of acquisition, object familiarity, name agreement, word frequency, and word length made significant independent contributions to predicting naming latency.
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This research was supported by Grant DGE-96-PB-0545 from the Spanish government. We thank Joan Snodgrass and Frances Connors for helpful comments on an earlier version of this article.
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Cuetos, F., Ellis, A.W. & Alvarez, B. Naming times for the Snodgrass and Vanderwart pictures in Spanish. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers 31, 650–658 (1999). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03200741
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