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Psycholinguistic estimates and lexical decision times for 1000 Croatian nouns

Large databases containing lexical and semantic norms have been developed in many languages and have proven to be a useful research tool. The Croatian Psycholinguistic Database contains norms for the categories of concreteness, imageability, subjective frequency and age of acquisition. The aim of this study was to explore the role of these psycholinguistic variables in lexical decision times for 1000 nouns. Lexical decision time data were collected from 40 students who, in two separate sessions, responded to 2000 words and pseudowords divided in ten blocks of 200 trials. A multiple regression analysis was conducted to examine the contribution of concreteness, imageability, subjective frequency and age of acquisition, along with word frequency and word length, in explaining lexical decision reaction times. The results demonstrated that these variables accounted for a significant portion of variance in the RTs and are consistent with results of similar studies in other languages.

Croatian psycholinguistic database, lexical decision time, age of acquisition, concreteness, word frequency, imageability

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