Dutch Data

Leuven Concept Database

Dutch norms for 129 animal names from 5 different categories and 166 artifact names from 6 categories. For each category there's an extensive set of exemplar judgments (e.g., typicality, age-of-acquisition, familiarity, etc.), pairwise similarities, and exemplar feature judgments. A full description and materials is available at the Leuven Concept workshop page.

De Deyne, S., Verheyen, S., Ameel, E., Vanpaemel, W., Dry, M., Voorspoels, W., Storms, G. (2008). Exemplar by feature applicability matrices and other Dutch normative data for semantic concepts. Behavior Research Methods, 40 (4), 1030-1048.

SWOW-NL Dutch Word Association Lexicon

Word association data in Dutch covering 12,571 cue words and 3,771,300 responses. These data are freely available for research purposes and can be downloaded from the Small World of Words page.

De Deyne, S., Navarro, D., Storms, G. (2013). Better explanations of lexical and semantic cognition using networks derived from continued rather than single word associations. Behavior Research Methods, 45 (2), 480-498.

Dutch age-of-acquisition and concreteness data

Ratings for concreteness and age-of-acquisition for 30,000 Dutch words available as an Excel file at the Center for Reading Research, University of Ghent.

Brysbaert, M., Stevens, M., De Deyne, S., Voorspoels, W., Storms, G. (2014). Norms of age of acquisition and concreteness for 30,000 Dutch words. Acta Psychologica, 150, 80-84.

Dutch Triad data

  • Triadic comparison data
    This file contains the data for each of 4 experiments described in the paper covering remote (Experiment 1, 2), domain (Experiment 3) and basic category (Experiment 4) triad stimuli.

  • R code for likelihoodtests
    Alternative Bayesian likelihood test for the triadic preferences (code by Danielle Navarro, see paper for details).

De Deyne, S., Navarro, D., Perfors, A., Storms, G. (2016). Structure at every scale: A semantic network account of the similarities between unrelated concepts. Journal of Experimental Psychology. General, 145, 1228-1254.



English Data

SWOW-EN: English Word Association Lexicon

Word association data for over 12,000 cue words. The data are freely available for research purposes and can be downloaded from the Small World of Words page.

De Deyne, S., Navarro, D. J., Perfors, A., Brysbaert, M., & Storms, G. (2019). The “Small World of Words” English word association norms for over 12,000 cue words. Behavior Research Methods, 51(3), 987-1006, DOI 10.3758/s13428-018-1115-7.

English Remote Triad data

De Deyne, S., Perfors, A., Navarro, D. (2016). Predicting human similarity judgments with distributional models: The value of word associations. Proceeding of the Computational Linguistics Conference (COLING), Osaka, Japan.


English Concrete and Abstract Triad data

  • Concrete and Abstract triadic comparison data
    Triadic relatedness preferences made by 40 participants for a set of 100 concrete and 100 abstract triads. Triads were defined as basic-level members of superordinate categories like Birds, Emotions, etc.

De Deyne, S., Navarro, D.J., Collell, G. and Perfors, A. (2021), Visual and Affective Multimodal Models of Word Meaning in Language and Mind. Cognitive Science, 45: e12922. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12922