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The Multilingual Picture Database

. 2022 Jul 21 ; 9 (1) : 431. [epub] 20220721

Language English Country England, Great Britain Media electronic

Document type Dataset, Journal Article

Grant support
H2019/HUM-5705 Comunidad de Madrid
DP190103067 Department of Education and Training | Australian Research Council (ARC)
1083/17 Israel Science Foundation (ISF)
NRF-2019R1G1A1100192 National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)
H2020-MSCA-ITN-2017, 765556 EC | EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation H2020 | H2020 Priority Excellent Science | H2020 European Research Council (H2020 Excellent Science - European Research Council)
321460 Academy of Finland (Suomen Akatemia)
75288744, 121050600033-7 Saint Petersburg State University (St. Petersburg State University)
2015/18/E/HS6/00428 Narodowe Centrum Nauki (National Science Centre)

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PubMed 35864133
PubMed Central PMC9304413
DOI 10.1038/s41597-022-01552-7
PII: 10.1038/s41597-022-01552-7
Knihovny.cz E-resources

The growing interdisciplinary research field of psycholinguistics is in constant need of new and up-to-date tools which will allow researchers to answer complex questions, but also expand on languages other than English, which dominates the field. One type of such tools are picture datasets which provide naming norms for everyday objects. However, existing databases tend to be small in terms of the number of items they include, and have also been normed in a limited number of languages, despite the recent boom in multilingualism research. In this paper we present the Multilingual Picture (Multipic) database, containing naming norms and familiarity scores for 500 coloured pictures, in thirty-two languages or language varieties from around the world. The data was validated with standard methods that have been used for existing picture datasets. This is the first dataset to provide naming norms, and translation equivalents, for such a variety of languages; as such, it will be of particular value to psycholinguists and other interested researchers. The dataset has been made freely available.

AcqVA Aurora Center Institute of Language and Culture UiT the Arctic University of Norway Tromsø Norway

BioMag Laboratory HUS Diagnostic Center Helsinki University Hospital University of Helsinki and Aalto University Helsinki Finland

Bournemouth University Poole United Kingdom

C unit Laurea University of Applied Sciences Vantaa Finland

Centro de Investigación Nebrija en Cognición Universidad Nebrija Madrid Spain

Cognitive Brain Research Unit Department of Psychology and Logopedics University of Helsinki Helsinki Finland

Department of Central European Studies Faculty of Arts Charles University Praha Czech Republic

Department of Cognition Development and Educational Psychology Universitat de Barcelona Barcelona Spain

Department of English Faculty of Modern Languages and Communication Universiti Putra Malaysia Serdang Selangor Malaysia

Department of English Language and Literature and Hanyang Institute for Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language Hanyang University Seoul Republic of Korea

Department of English Literature and Linguistics and The Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center Bar Ilan University Ramat Gan Israel

Department of Foreign Language Education Middle East Technical University Ankara Turkey

Department of Language and Literature NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim Norway

Department of Linguistics Faculty of Arts Charles University Praha Czech Republic

Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering Aalto University Espoo Finland

Department of Rehabilitation Sciences Cyprus University of Technology Limassol Cyprus

Hellenic Open University Patras Greece

Institute of Czech Language and Theory of Communication Faculty of Arts Charles University Praha Czech Republic

Institute of Psychology Jagiellonian University Krakow Poland

Instituto de Lingüística Facultad de Filosofía y Letras Universidad de Buenos Aires Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas Buenos Aires Argentina

Laboratory for Experimental Psychology and Department of Psychology Faculty of Philosophy University of Belgrade Beograd Serbia

Malay Language Department Faculty of Modern Languages and Communication Universiti Putra Malaysia Serdang Malaysia

Research Unit in Human Cognition CIPsi School of Psychology University of Minho Braga Portugal

Saint Petersburg State University Saint Petersburg Russia

School of Education and English University of Nottingham Ningbo China Ningbo China

School of Human and Behavioural Sciences Prifysgol Bangor Bangor Wales UK

School of Linguistics Higher School of Economics Moscow Russia

School of Philosophy Department of English Language and Literature National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Athens Greece

School of Psychological Sciences and Centre for Reading Macquarie University Sydney Australia

School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences University of Reading Reading UK

School of Speech language Pathology and Audiology University of Montreal Centre for Research on Brain Language and Music Montréal Québec Canada

The Bilingual Mind Research Group Department of Linguistics and Basque Studies University of the Basque Country UPV EHU Vitoria Gasteiz Spain

The MARCS Institute for Brain Behaviour and Development Western Sydney University Penrith NSW Australia

UiT The Arctic University of Norway Tromsø Norway

University of Florida Gainesville Florida USA

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