BLIND: a set of semantic feature norms from the congenitally blind

Feature-based descriptions of concepts produced by subjects in a property generation task are widely used in cognitive science to develop empirically grounded concept representations and to study systematic trends in such repre- sentations. This article introduces BLIND, a collection of parallel semantic norms collected from a group of congenital- ly blind Italian subjects and comparable sighted subjects. The BLIND norms comprise descriptions of 50 nouns and 20 verbs. All the materials have been semantically annotated and translated into English, to make them easily accessible to the scientific community. The article also presents a pre- liminary analysis of the BLIND data that highlights both the large degree of overlap between the groups and interesting differences. The complete BLIND norms are freely available and can be downloaded from http://sesia.humnet.unipi.it/ blind_dat

Norme semantiche per lo studio del significato

Le norme semantiche BLIND costituiscono una nuova risorsa di dati comportamentali liberamente accessibile, che permette di esplorare la distribuzione delle proprietà concettuali in persone vedenti e non vedenti, e di acquisire nuove prove per comprendere l’interazione tra l’esperienza sensoriale e il linguaggio nella formazione dei concetti. Dopo aver discusso alcuni aspetti riguardanti le ricerche sulla cognizione nei non vedenti e sulle norme semantiche, in questo capitolo descriveremo nel dettaglio la metodologia utilizzata per la creazione delle norme BLIND. Nel Capitolo 5, presenteremo alcune prime analisi delle proprietà nelle norme BLIND. Il quadro che emerge rivelerà somiglianze straordinarie tra vedenti e non vedenti, affiancate tuttavia da differenze significative

BLIND: a set of semantic feature norms from the congenitally blind

Feature-based descriptions of concepts produced by subjects in a property generation task are widely used in cognitive science to develop empirically grounded concept representations and to study systematic trends in such repre- sentations. This article introduces BLIND, a collection of parallel semantic norms collected from a group of congenital- ly blind Italian subjects and comparable sighted subjects. The BLIND norms comprise descriptions of 50 nouns and 20 verbs. All the materials have been semantically annotated and translated into English, to make them easily accessible to the scientific community. The article also presents a pre- liminary analysis of the BLIND data that highlights both the large degree of overlap between the groups and interesting differences. The complete BLIND norms are freely available and can be downloaded from http://sesia.humnet.unipi.it/ blind_data