English verbs semantic norms database: Concreteness, embodiment, imageability, valence and arousal ratings for 3,500 verbs
database[Title] 2025-04-26
Summary:
Semantic ratings studies have resulted in significant methodological advances towards understanding the importance of experiential information to lexical-semantic processing. Yet, the existing norms are biased towards nouns, with fewer ratings available for verbs. In the present study, we collected new semantic rating norms for 3,512 verbs on the dimensions of concreteness, embodiment, imageability, valence, and arousal. The resulting ratings provide the largest database of verb-specific rating...