Thai Word Norms: Imageability, Body–Object Interaction, and Subjective Frequency

Project description

This project hosts TUNorms, a set of psycholinguistic word norms for Thai developed to support research on lexical–semantic processing and embodied cognition. The dataset provides normative ratings for imageability, body–object interaction (BOI), and subjective frequency for 627 mono- and multi-syllabic Thai words.

The norms were collected from Thai university students using standardised rating procedures. Reliability was assessed through internal consistency and cross-linguistic comparisons with existing norms for overlapping items, and the measures were further validated in a semantic categorisation task demonstrating independent effects of imageability and BOI on response latencies after controlling for established lexical variables.

The repository contains the aggregated normative data and the full rating instructions (Thai and English). Raw participant-level data are not included, as this is a completed normative study and the shared materials are intended to support controlled stimulus selection, replication, and secondary analyses.

This dataset accompanies a journal manuscript currently under submission. Upon acceptance, the final citation will be added to this record. The norms are released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence to facilitate reuse.