The Hatfield Image Test (HIT): A new picture test and norms for experimental and clinical use

We present a new corpus of 147 high-quality photographic colour images (the Hatfield Image Test: HIT). Existing sets of pictorial stimuli tend to be line drawn, contain many items that are readily identifiable by healthy participants, and, therefore, have an inherent tendency towards ceiling effects...

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Published inJournal of clinical and experimental neuropsychology Vol. 31; no. 6; pp. 731 - 753
Main Authors Adlington, Rebecca L., Laws, Keith R., Gale, Tim M.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Hove Taylor & Francis Group 01.08.2009
Psychology Press
Subjects
Adolescent
Adult
Age Factors
Analysis of Variance
Animals
Anomia
Biological and medical sciences
Category naming
Ceiling effects
Child
Child, Preschool
Colour
Concept Formation - physiology
Disorders of higher nervous function. Focal brain diseases. Central vestibular syndrome and deafness. Brain stem syndromes
Female
Humans
Imagination - physiology
Male
Medical sciences
Middle Aged
Names
Nervous system (semeiology, syndromes)
Neurology
Neuropsychological Tests
Normative data
Photic Stimulation - methods
Reaction Time - physiology
Recognition (Psychology) - physiology
Reference Values
Semantics
Visual Perception - physiology
Young Adult
Human
Memory disorder
Cognitive disorder
Color
Neuropsychological test
Ceiling effects
Psychometrics
Naming
Anomia
Standards
Language disorder
Colour
Communication disorder
Language
Normative data
Categorization
Psychometric standardization
Category naming
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Summary:We present a new corpus of 147 high-quality photographic colour images (the Hatfield Image Test: HIT). Existing sets of pictorial stimuli tend to be line drawn, contain many items that are readily identifiable by healthy participants, and, therefore, have an inherent tendency towards ceiling effects in the normal population. The broad range of item difficulty and range of semantic subcategories in the HIT permits researchers to select stimuli of appropriate difficulty as required. We present naming data from 152 healthy participants. Additionally, we present mean ratings for each item on several widely used psycholinguistic variables: age of acquisition, colour diagnosticity, familiarity, name agreement (and the H statistic), visual complexity, and word frequency. These stimuli provide a useful corpus for experimental and clinical researchers.
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ISSN:1380-3395
1744-411X
DOI:10.1080/13803390802488103