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Internet Resources for Experimental Stimuli We have compiled a list of Internet resources for both auditory and visual stimuli. All links have been tested as of 11/21/07. If you have stimuli that you would like to add to this list (or if you notice a broken link), please contact the webmaster. As always, please cite the appropriate investigator upon publishing any paper using downloaded stimuli. Dot Cloud Stimuli Our lab created sets of random dot patterns (similar to the Posner and Keele dot clouds) for use in experimental testing. Twenty-four sets of 11 images are provided, each with a random display of white dots on a gray background. Images denoted with a "C" are the canonical dot patterns for each set. The sets are composed of 10 other images in which the dot locations are progressively (randomly) perturbed from their original locations in the canonical image. For example, set1_1.bmp is derived by adding a small amount of random noise to the dot locations in set1_C; set1_10.bmp is derived by adding a large amount of random noise to the dot locations in set1_C. Dot Stimuli Verbal Stimuli Sets of normed word pools memory.psych.upenn.edu/wordpools.php Normed affective word lists csea.phhp.ufl.edu/Media Sound Stimuli Useful sound clips (animal noises, cartoon voices) freesoundfiles.tintagel.net/Audio Sound clips from movies moviesoundcentral.com Various sound files including famous spoken quotes wavsource.com Social and Emotional Stimuli: Faces and Photos Face stimuli varying in age, gender and ethnicity, from Denise Park's lab at Illinois agingmind.cns.uiuc.edu Database of emotional faces from the Technical University of Munich mmk.ei.tum.de Classic emotional stimuli (such as the IAP picture set) are available csea.phhp.ufl.edu Ekman face set from 1975 (can be ordered for $175) paulekman.com Newer (and free) set of emotional faces from Technical University of Munich mmk.ei.tum.de Emotional face set from CMU cs.cmu.edu A clearinghouse of information relevant to emotion researchers, including links to emotional stimuli (confusing website design) emotion-research.net Objects and Scenes Large set of real objects photographed from various angles (from the Netherlands) staff.science.uva.nl Many good images of cars, motorcycles, airplanes, faces, doors and scenes (from Caltech) vision.caltech.edu Objects and scenes of mixed quality (University of Surrey) ee.surrey.ac.uk Color-calibrated natural scenes tabby.vision.mcgill A good database of objects, scenes, birds, butterflies, textures, with links to other sites (Illinois) cvr.ai.uiuc.edu Real objects (from UCSD) csclab.ucsd.edu Real objects (from Columbia) cs.columbia.edu Photographs of people, scenes and objects (from Berkeley) eecs.berkeley.edu Large database of pictures of fruits, vegetables, animals, cups and cars taken under controlled photographic conditions mis.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de Computer-generated objects (from Princeton) shape.cs.princeton.edu Biological Motion Large set of point-light displays, with both human and nonhuman actors (from Temple) astro.temple.edu Change Detection Editorial errors from movies slipups.com Free flicker demos (from Ron Rensink) psych.ubc.ca Dan Simons' DVD of classic change blindness short movies viscog.beckman.uiuc.edu Mike Tarr's change blindness stimuli titan.cog.brown.edu Websites with links to many stimulus databases Mike Tarr's excellent website with various types of stimuli titan.cog.brown.edu Database of various image types, mostly from computer vision sources (quality is mixed) cs.cmu.edu An older website with decent visual stimuli viperlib.york.ac.uk Links to other lists of sound files (some links broken, some not so good) nobucks.com Create your own stimuli Put faces on other people's bodies regsoft.net Morph faces stoik.com Morph faces with excellent software from Genemation genemation.com Make anaglyphs with Photoshop dogfeathers.com For Mac users, record and manipulate voices easily using Garageband apple.com |