NORMS

We report below databases of Italian words we created, to which we contributed, or which were realized by colleagues with whom we variously collaborate, and that can be useful resources for research.

1. Falcinelli, I., Fini, C., Mazzuca, C., & Borghi, A. M. (2024). The TECo database: ecological and technological concepts at the interface between abstractness and concreteness. Collabra: Psychology, 10(1), 120327. Database: https://osf.io/m6ph9/files/osfstorage/65e73fc6e5e51c0331bc5cf5

A database of Italian words related to technology and climate change, evaluated according to various dimensions.

2. Villani, C., Lugli, L., Liuzza, M. T., & Borghi, A. M. (2019). Varieties of abstract concepts and their multiple dimensions. Language and Cognition: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language and Cognitive Science, 11 (3), 403–430. Database: https://osf.io/hbyfa/files/osfstorage/5c6d75d182a3950017c9d4cd

A database of 425 Italian abstract words, evaluated according to various dimensions.

Other Italian databases from colleagues with whom we variously collaborate:

Barca, L., Burani, C., & Arduino, L. S. (2002). Word naming times and psycholinguistic norms for Italian nouns. Behavior research methods, instruments, & computers, 34(3), 424-434. Database: http://wwwistc.ip.rm.cnr.it/material/database/

- Bolognesi, M.M., Caselli, T. Specificity ratings for Italian data. Behavioral Research, 55, 3531–3548 (2023). Database: https://osf.io/ahf82/files/osfstorage/631f1176582f8c042388c786

- Della Rosa, P. A., Catricalà, E., Vigliocco, G., & Cappa, S. F. (2010). Beyond the abstract—concrete dichotomy: Mode of acquisition, concreteness, imageability, familiarity, age of acquisition, context availability, and abstractness norms for a set of 417 Italian words. Behavior research methods, 42(4), 1042-1048. Database: https://norare.clld.org/contributions/DellaRosa-2010-417

- Montefinese, M., Ambrosini, E., Fairfield, B., & Mammarella, N. (2014). The adaptation of the affective norms for English words (ANEW) for Italian. Behavior research methods, 46(3), 887-903. Database: https://norare.clld.org/contributions/Montefinese-2014-AffectiveRatings

- Montefinese, M., Vinson, D., Vigliocco, G., & Ambrosini, E. (2019). Italian age of acquisition norms for a large set of words (ItAoA). Frontiers in psychology, 10, 278. Database (AoA): https://osf.io/3trg2/files/osfstorage/5bee834e4b37e1001a4d205a

- Repetto, C., Rodella, C., Conca, F., Santi, G. C., & Catricalà, E. (2023). The Italian Sensorimotor Norms: Perception and action strength measures for 959 words. Behavior Research Methods, 55(8), 4035-4047. Database: https://osf.io/rcsnm/files/osfstorage/6284e2c628177436d5f7e371

- Vergallito, A., Petilli, M. A., & Marelli, M. (2020). Perceptual modality norms for 1,121 Italian words: A comparison with concreteness and imageability scores and an analysis of their impact in word processing tasks. Behavior Research Methods, 52(4), 1599-1616. Database: https://osf.io/zdg59/files/osfstorage/5db857fdf3bb87000c866ea9