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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Language and sensory experiences are deeply intertwined.
  • Research requires comprehensive datasets linking words to sensory information.
  • Existing Dutch sensory norms have limitations in scope and modality coverage.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce a novel, extensive set of sensory modality norms for Dutch words.
  • To facilitate research on the relationship between language and sensory perception.
  • To provide a resource that improves upon existing measures of word sensory experience.

Main Methods:

  • Collected perceptual strength ratings for over 24,000 Dutch words.
  • Assessed six perceptual modalities: audition, gustation, haptics, olfaction, vision, and interoception.
  • Included diverse word classes to enhance applicability.

Main Results:

  • Developed a large-scale dataset of Dutch sensory norms.
  • Demonstrated that these norms predict word processing behavior.
  • Showed superior performance compared to existing concreteness and imageability ratings.

Conclusions:

  • The new Dutch sensory norms offer a significant advancement for language and perception research.
  • The dataset provides a valuable, expanded resource for investigating sensory associations in language.
  • The inclusion of interoception broadens the scope of sensory research.