{{attachment:mrclogo.gif}} = Resources for Stimulus Selection, Evaluation and Other Tools = This page provides links to databases or other web-sites which may be useful for the selection, evaluation or manipulation of stimulus material. There is information on * '''[[#General|General Issues]]''' * '''[[#Neuroimaging|Neuroimaging]]''' * '''[[#WordRecognition|Language, Word Recognition]]''' * '''[[#PicturesObjects|Movies, Pictures and Objects]]''' * '''[[#EmotionResearch|Emotion Research]]''' * '''[[#SpeechSoundsNoises|Speech and Sounds]]''' * '''[[#ReactionTimes|Reaction Time Distributions]]''' * '''[[#MatlabTools|Matlab Tools]]'''. <> == General == '''[[http://www.psychwiki.com/wiki/Archives_of_data_and_stimuli|PsychWiki Archive]]''' (useful links to norms, stimuli, data etc.) '''[[http://cvcl.mit.edu/SUNSeminar/ProctorVu_1999.pdf|Overview of Published Norms]]''' (From "Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers" - up to 1999) '''[[http://www.psychonomic.org/archive/|Searchable Archive]]''' of the Psychonomic Society ([[http://brm.psychonomic-journals.org/content/36/3/363.full.pdf|description]]) '''[[http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/maarten.van-casteren/mixandmatch.html|"Mix and Match" Software]]''' (for stimulus matching and pseudorandomising) '''[[http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/optseq/|MGH OptSeq]]''' (Randomization tool for event-related fMRI designs) '''[[http://www.fmripower.org/|fmripower]]''' (matlab based power calculation tool for group fMRI studies) '''[[http://www.r-project.org/|The R Project for Statistical Computing]]''' '''[[http://www.rseek.org/|R Seek]]''' (Search engine for R-related issues) '''[[http://openscienceframework.org/|Open Science Framework]]''' (on-line depository for pre-registered studies) <> == Neuroimaging == '''[[http://www.biomedcentral.com/1756-0500/4/349/|BrainMap Project]]''', for standardization, sharing, and meta-analysis of neuroimaging data (incl. ALE, see reference list for more resources) '''[[http://www.fz-juelich.de/inm/inm-1/EN/Forschung/forschung_node.html|Jülich Atlases and Tools]]''', three-dimensional, realistic model of the human brain([[http://www.fz-juelich.de/inm/inm-1/EN/Forschung/JuBrain/_node.html|JuBrain]], [[http://www.fz-juelich.de/inm/inm-1/EN/Forschung/_docs/BigBrain/bigbrain_node.html|BigBrain]]) '''[[http://134.95.56.239/home.asp|CoCoMac Database]]''', Collations of Connectivity data on the Macaque brain '''[[CbuImaging:NeuroanatomyTutorial|Neuroanatomy Tutorial]]''' (some more links at bottom) '''[[http://headneckbrainspine.com/web_flash/newmodules/Brain%20MRI.swf|Brain Atlas]]''' (simple and interactive) '''[[http://neurosynth.org/|Neurosynth]]''' (automated "meta-analysis" of fMRI data) '''[[http://www.studyforrest.org/|Studyforrest]]''' (publicly available neuroimaging data) <> == Language, Word Recognition == There are more links to language-related databases on the '''[[http://imaging.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/twiki/bin/view/LangWiki/Databases|Language Group Wiki]]''' '''[[http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/|Linguistic Data Consortium]]''' (a collection of databases etc., see e.g. their [[http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/|Catalog page]]). '''[[http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/readme_files/celex.readme.html|CELEX Psycholinguistic Database]]''' (orthographic, phonetic and lexical information on English/German/Dutch words) '''[[http://www.neuro.mcw.edu/mcword|McWord : An Orthographic Wordform Database]]''' (web site that provides simple ways to extract information from CELEX. Also allows you to generate nonwords with specifiable degrees of approximation to English orthography) '''[[http://www.psych.rl.ac.uk/|MRC Psycholinguistic Database]]''', (orth/phon/lex information on English words, plus imageability ratings; direct access to search engine [http://www.psy.uwa.edu.au/mrcdatabase/uwa_mrc.htm here) '''[[http://expsy.ugent.be/subtlexus/|SUBTLEXus: word frequencies based on American English]]''' (movie subtitles) '''[[http://www.maccs.mq.edu.au/~nwdb/|ARC Nonword Database]]''' '''[[http://crr.ugent.be/programs-data/wuggy|Wuggy]]''' (a multi-lingual pseudoword generator) '''[[http://language.psy.bris.ac.uk/bristol_norms.html|Bristol Norms]]''' (Age-of-acquisition, imageability and familiarity) '''[[http://elexicon.wustl.edu/|English Lexicon Project]]''' (orth/phon/lex information on English words, plus Lexical Decision and Reading Latencies, HAL Frequencies etc.) '''[[http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/|British National Corpus]]''' (English words and phrases) '''[[http://wordsmith.org/|Wordsmith]]''' (anagrams, dictionary etc.) '''[[http://wordnet.princeton.edu/|Princeton WordNet]]''' (Conceptual-semantic networks) '''[[http://www.eat.rl.ac.uk/|Edinburgh Word Association Thesaurus]]''' (empirical semantic word association data) '''[[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20805588|Sentence Cloze Probability Norms]]''' (for 498 sentences) '''[[http://lsa.colorado.edu/|Latent Semantic Analysis]]''' (for analysing and comparing texts and documents; more [[http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Latent_semantic_analysis|here]]) '''[[http://csea.phhp.ufl.edu/media/anewmessage.html|Affective Norms for English Words]]''' '''[[http://csea.phhp.ufl.edu/media/anetmessage.html|Affective Norms for English Text]]''' '''[[http://www.ewi-psy.fu-berlin.de/einrichtungen/arbeitsbereiche/allgpsy/BAWL-R/index.html|Berlin Affective Word List]]''' Affective norms for German words '''[[http://www.dlexdb.de/|dlexDB Project]]''' German lexical database '''[[http://www.ngrams.googlelabs.com/|Google Word Frequencies]]''' Frequencies for sets of ngrams (1 to 5 words) within Google books (over time) '''[[http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2006T13|Frequencies of word n-grams]]''' (from LDC catalog, see above) '''[[http://w3.usf.edu/FreeAssociation/|University of Florida Free Association Norms]]''' Free word association norms ([[http://rali.iro.umontreal.ca/Ressources/USF-FAN/|XML version]]) '''[[http://faculty.uaeu.ac.ae/s_boudelaa/Boudelaa_Marslen-Wilson_aralex.pdf|Aralex]]''' A lexical database for Modern Standard Arabic <> == Pictures, Objects, Movies == '''[[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7373248|Snodgrass&Vanderwart Original]]''', and '''[[http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/psych/jcen/2003/00000025/00000004/art00008|Snodgrass&Vanderwart revisited]]''' (visual, semantic and phonological information on line drawings) '''[[http://crl.ucsd.edu/~aszekely/ipnp/|The International Picture Naming Project]]''' (norms for picture naming in 7 different languages, plus some norms for reading and repetition) '''[[http://riesenhuberlab.neuro.georgetown.edu/hmax.html|HMAX]]''' HMAX model of object recognition by the Riesenhuber lab '''[[http://amdrae.ssc.uwo.ca/McRaeLab/norms.php|McRae's Semantic Feature Norms]]''' (norms for living and nonliving basic-level concepts, see '''[[http://amdrae.ssc.uwo.ca/McRaeLab/articles/McRae_etal_norms_BRM_05.pdf|Paper]]''') '''[[http://www.face-rec.org/databases/|Face Recognition]]''' (collection of databases) '''[[http://stims.cnbc.cmu.edu/Image%20Databases/TarrLab/|Images and 3D Objects]]''' '''[[http://live.ece.utexas.edu/research/doves/|Database of Visual Eye Movements]]''' (DOVES, collection of eye movements from 29 human observers as they viewed 101 natural calibrated images) '''[[http://michaelhout.com/?page_id=759|Novel Object and Unusual Name (NOUN) Database]]''' (database of images of novel, unusual object) '''[[http://Novel%20Object%20and%20Unusual%20Name%20(NOUN)%20Database|Novel Object and Unusual Name (NOUN) Database]]''' '''[[http://crcv.ucf.edu/data/UCF_YouTube_Action.php|UCF YouTube Action Video Dataset]]''' (videos of 11 action categories) '''[[https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~chaoyeh/web_action_data/dataset_list.html|Human Activity Video Datasets]]''' (list of datasets with videos of human actions/activities) <> == Emotion Research == '''[[http://csea.phhp.ufl.edu/media/iapsmessage.html|International Affective Picture System (IAPS)]]''' (normative ratings of emotion (pleasure, arousal, dominance) for a set of color photographs (objects and scenes)) '''[[http://csea.phhp.ufl.edu/media/iadsmessage.html|International Affective Digital Sounds (IADS)]]''' '''[[http://csea.phhp.ufl.edu/media/anewmessage.html|Affective Norms for English Words (ANEW)]]''' '''[[http://csea.phhp.ufl.edu/media/anetmessage.html|Affective Norms for English Text (ANET)]]''' <> == Speech, Sounds and Noises == '''[[http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/groups/cnbh/teaching/sounds_movies/index.html|What they can do with sounds at CNBH]]''' (e.g. musical rain) '''[[http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/matt.davis/vocode/|Noise-Vocoded Speech]]''' (look at bottom for how to do it yourself) '''[[http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/|Praat Software]]''' (for analysing and manipulating speech sounds) '''[[http://www.wakayama-u.ac.jp/~kawahara/STRAIGHTadv/index_e.html|STRAIGHT]]''' (speech manipulation tool) '''[[http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/maarten.van-casteren/the-voicekey-program.html|Voicekey software]]''' (for off-line voice onset measurements) <> == Reaction Time Distributions == '''[[http://www.psy.ulaval.ca/~yves/distrib.html|Ex-Gaussian in Matlab]]''' '''[[http://ppw.kuleuven.be/okp/software/dmat/|Diffusion Model Analysis Toolbox]]''' (DMAT, in Matlab; look here for [[http://imaging.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/meg/DMATintro|internal intro]]) <> == Matlab Tools == '''[[http://www.cns.nyu.edu/~lcv/ETS/slides/Rob-IntroMatlabOpt.pdf|Presentation about Optimising Matlab Code]]''' by Rob Young (look for more links inside)