Stimulus generation, ratings, phoneme counts, and group classifications for 696 famous people by British adults over 40 years of age |
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Authors: | James H Smith-Spark Viv Moore Tim Valentine Susan M Sherman |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Psychology, London South Bank University, 103 Borough Road, SE1 0AA London, England;(2) University of London, London, England;(3) University of Sheffield, Sheffield, England |
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Abstract: | Matching stimuli across a range of influencing variables is no less important for studies of face recognition than it is for
those of word processing. Whereas a number of corpora exist to allow experimenters to select a carefully controlled set of
word stimuli, similar databases for famous faces do not exist. This article, therefore, provides researchers in the area of
face recognition with a useful resource on which to base their stimulus selection. In the first phase of the investigation,
British adults over 40 years of age were requested to generate the names of famous people (or celebrities) that they thought
they would recognize and to write these down. The most frequently named celebrities were then rated by adults from the same
age population for familiarity, distinctiveness, and age of acquisition. The result is a database of 696 famous people, with
an indication of their relative eminence in the public consciousness and rated for these important variables. Phoneme counts
are also provided for each famous person, together with family name frequency counts in the general population, where available.
Materials and links may be accessed at www.psychonomic.org/archive. |
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