Cultural Influences on Name Agreement: A Set of 237 Standardized Photographs of French Speakers in Quebec and France

This study investigated name agreement for a set of 237 photographs from the Bank of Standardized Stimuli (BOSS; Brodeur et al., 2010, 2014), using modal name agreement as a percentage-based measure of naming consensus and the H-value as an information-based measure of response dispersion. Data were collected through an online questionnaire completed by 105 Quebec French speakers and 106 France French speakers, who reported no history of neurological or psychiatric disorders. We hypothesized that cultural context would yield differences in H-values and modal names between the two groups of speakers representing two varieties of French. For each photograph, we report the dominant (modal) name, modal name agreement, alternative responses, and the corresponding H-value. Across the dataset, mean modal name agreement was 83.81% for Quebec French speakers and 83.34% for France French speakers, while mean H-values were 0.67 and 0.73, respectively. Distributional comparisons did not reveal significant differences in H-values between varieties. However, complementary item-level analyses indicated that H-values were slightly but significantly higher in France French, with a small effect size, and that H-values were positively associated across varieties. Descriptive comparisons also showed substantial overlap in modal names across varieties, while identifying a subset of items with different dominant labels. This study provides the first cross-cultural normative dataset for Quebec and France French, underscoring the importance of culturally adapted naming norms in both cognitive research and clinical practice.