= Databases for Stimulus Selection and Evaluation = 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]''', '''[#WordRecognition Word Recognition]''', '''[#PicturesObjects Pictures and Objects]''', '''[#EmotionResearch Emotion Research]''', '''[#SpeechSoundsNoises Speech and Sounds]''', and '''[#ReactionTimes Reaction Time Distributions]'''. [[Anchor(General)]] == 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) [[Anchor(WordRecognition)]] == 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/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]''' '''[http://www.maccs.mq.edu.au/~nwdb/ ARC Nonword Database]''' '''[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]''' [[Anchor(PicturesObjects)]] == Pictures and Objects == '''[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://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]''' [[Anchor(EmotionResearch)]] == 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)]''' [[Anchor(SpeechSoundsNoises)]] == 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) [[Anchor(ReactionTimes)]] == 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)