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Action naming in French: Normative data and response latencies for 134 video stimuli
Manon Spigarelli1,2, Lucie Chyriaïeff3, Anaëlle Hébert3
1Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche en réadaptation et intégration sociale - CIRRIS, 525 Bd Wilfrid-Hamel, Québec, QC, G1M 2S8, Canada. manon.spigarelli.1@ulaval.ca.
Behavior Research Methods
|August 4, 2026
Summary
This study introduces a French action video database to improve psycholinguistic research on action naming. Key variables like name agreement influence response latencies, aiding clinical and research applications.
Area of Science:
- Psycholinguistics
- Cognitive Psychology
- Neuroscience
Background:
- Most psycholinguistic studies on action naming use static images, neglecting the dynamic nature of actions.
- A gap exists in dynamic action representation for French language research.
Purpose of the Study:
- To create a novel database of French action videos for psycholinguistic research.
- To develop and analyze key psycholinguistic variables for action naming from video stimuli.
- To investigate the influence of these variables on action naming response latencies.
Main Methods:
- Compiled a database of 134 action videos in French.
- Developed five psycholinguistic variables: Name Agreement (NA), H-statistic, naming latency, uniqueness naming point, and adjusted naming latency.
- Collected response latencies from 394 French-speaking participants (under and over 50 years old).
Main Results:
- Name Agreement (NA), H-statistic, and instrumentality significantly predicted response latencies.
- The database includes variables for the overall sample and age-separated groups (under 50 and 50+).
Conclusions:
- The new video-based action naming database is a valuable resource for French psycholinguistic research.
- This database will aid clinicians and researchers in exploring action naming in clinical and experimental contexts.
- The findings highlight the importance of dynamic stimuli and specific psycholinguistic variables in understanding action naming.
