Abstract: Using naming task and scale-rating method, name agreement, famil-iarity, image agreement and visual complexity of 235 pictures are separ-ately measured, with 142 undergraduate students. The result indicatesthat except the name agreement, the means of the other three indexesare close to those obtained by Snodgrass, suggesting that the set of pictu-res is fit for Chinese subjects. The result also shows that the indexes arenot homogenous because low correlations exist between them. Familiarityand name agreement are very important factors when designing pictureexperiments.

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