PicPsy: A new bank of 106 photographs and line drawings with written naming norms for Spanish-speaking children and adults.

The use of pictures as experimental stimuli is a frequent practice in psychological and educational research. In addition, picture-naming task allows the study of different cognitive processes such as perception, attention, memory and language. Line drawings have been widely used in research to date but it has begun to be highlighted the need for more ecological stimuli such as photographs.

LEXIN: a lexical database from Spanish kindergarten and first-grade readers.

The LEXIN database offers psycholinguistic indexes of the 13,184 different words (types) computed from 178,839 occurrences of these words (tokens) contained in a corpus of 134 beginning readers widely used in Spain. This database provides four statistical indicators: F (overall word frequency), D (index of dispersion across selected readers), U (estimated frequency per million words), and SFI (standard frequency index). It also gives information about the number of letters, syntactic category, and syllabic structure of the words included.

Normative study of the implicit causality of 100 interpersonal verbs in Spanish.

This study provides normative data on the implicit causality of interpersonal verbs in Spanish. Two experiments were carried out. In Experiment 1, ratings of the implicit causality of 100 verbs classified into four types (agent-patient, agent-evocator, stimulus-experiencer, and experiencer-stimulus) were examined.

Reading errors in first- and second-grade readers of a shallow orthography: evidence from Spanish.

Background: Studies focusing on reading errors can help to understand how children learn to read and to structure key components of reading instruction. However, no prior studies have examined which letters might be a greater source of difficulty for beginning readers in Spanish.

Aims: First, to examine the pattern of reading errors in beginning readers in a shallow orthography like Spanish with a particular focus on both the context-dependant (c, g, r) and the visual similar (b, d, g, p, q) consonants.