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Neurological Sciences
Published in: Neurological Sciences 9/2016

01-09-2016 | Original Article

Revised and extended norms for a picture naming test sensitive to category dissociations

Authors: Marcella Laiacona, Riccardo Barbarotto, Elena Baratelli, Erminio Capitani

Published in: Neurological Sciences | Issue 9/2016

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Abstract

This study presents revised and extended norms for a picture naming test [Laiacona et al. (Arch Neurol Psicol Psichiatr 54:209–248, 1993)], based on 80 Snodgrass and Vanderwart (J Exp Psychol Human Learn Mem 6:174–215, 1980) pictures, devised to detect a categorical dissociation in the naming of items between biological and man-made categories. This survey is based on data from 215 healthy Italian participants. Since males are more frequently reported to have a disproportionate impairment of biological categories, norms have also been separately calculated for males and females and for the two categories of man-made objects and biological entities. Besides providing new normative values based on the Equivalent Scores approach, this study reappraises the interaction between categorical dissociations and sex in the normal population, and discusses some methodological aspects concerning the use of statistical norms.
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Metadata
Title
Revised and extended norms for a picture naming test sensitive to category dissociations
Authors
Marcella Laiacona
Riccardo Barbarotto
Elena Baratelli
Erminio Capitani
Publication date
01-09-2016
Publisher
Springer Milan
Published in
Neurological Sciences / Issue 9/2016
Print ISSN: 1590-1874
Electronic ISSN: 1590-3478
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10072-016-2611-0

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