Naming times and standardized norms for the Italian PD/DPSS set of 266 pictures: Direct comparisons with American, English, French, and Spanish published databases

The present study provides Italian normative measures for 266 line drawings belonging to the new set of pictures developed by Lotto, Dell'Acqua, and J ob (in press). The pictures have been standardized on the following measure s: number of letters, number of syllables, name frequency, within-category typicality, familiarity, age of acquisition, name agreement, and naming tim e. In addition to providing the measures, the present study focuses on indi rect and direct comparisons (i.e., correlations) of the present norms with databases provided by comparable studies in Italian (in which normative dat a were collected with Snodgrass & Vanderwart's set of pictures; Nisi, Longo ni, & Snodgrass, 2000), in British English (Barry, Morrison, & Ellis, 1997) , in American English (Snodgrass & Vanderwart, 1980; Snodgrass & Yditsky, 1 996), in French (Alario & Ferrand, 1999), and in Spanish (Sanfeliu & Fernan dez, 1996).