[EN]Knowledge of specific characteristics of verbal ma terial is imperative in cognitive research, and this need calls
for periodical updating of normative data. With this aim, and
considering that the most recent Spanish-language category
norms for adults date back to more than 30 years ago, and that
they do not include some very common categories, a new
normative study was conducted. In this study, production data
for exemplars in the 56 categories of Battig and Montague
(Journal of Experimental Psychology, 80, 1-46, 1969) were
collected from a pool of 284 young adults who were native
speakers of Spanish using an exemplar production task. With the
goal of providing a useful tool for cognitive research to be
conducted with Spanish-speaking samples, indices of frequency,
rank, and lexical availability for the exemplars of each category
are provided in a computerized database. The norms described
are available for downloading assupplemental material with this
article.
