Experimental MaterialsA model representing the interaction between linguistic and visual processes as measured by eye movements in dynamic scenes (see paper in Frontiers in Psychology). |
The materials available here were employed in several (ongoing , to be published, or published) studies conducted in the Lab. They are made available to other researchers for their use in experiments. Please make sure you cite the main paper (provided below) for which these materials were originally developed. The materials (videos) should not circulate without authorization and should not be posted elsewhere.
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Videos
For Action naming / Sentence production tasks, and for Visual World experiments involving verbs and dynamic scenes
For Action naming / Sentence production tasks, and for Visual World experiments involving verbs and dynamic scenes
Videos depicting three verb classes representing simple actions and statesThese are 29 videos shown to Alzheimer's patients in a study involving verb semantic classes. The videos depict 10 lexical causatives (peel, crush, etc.), 10 body motion verbs (walk, crawl, run, etc.), and 9 peception/psychological verbs (watch, see, hear, etc.). These were made to involve a small number of actors with simple (black) backgrounds and without objects that are not relevant for depicting the action/state. These materials also include verb naming norms produced by healthy young and elderly individuals. For more details (and for original citation), please check our paper in Cognitive Neuropsychology [proofs | .pdf]
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Videos involving change blindness, representing two verb classesThese 96 videos were developed for a visual-world study involving change blindness (i.e., with particular objects disappearing during the depicted event). The original materials were paired with two morpho-semantic (and aspectual) classes of verbs: deverbal (e.g., to vacuum, to whisk) and non-deverbal 'accomplishment' verbs (e.g., to clean, to cut). These materials include the original 32 videos (nothing disappears), and two variants in which either a particular object (e.g., egg) or an instrument (e.g., the whisk) disappears (64 videos, 32 of each kind). These materials also include scene norms. For more details (and for original citation), please check the following (manuscript in preparation):
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Videos depicting three motion conditions paired with two verb classesThese videos were developed for a series of eye-tracking experiments employing the so called visual world paradigm (videos and sentences presented concomitantly). There are 17 unique scenes (e.g., woman in kitchen), with each video in each scene ending in three different ways (e.g., cook moves towards a target object, remains neutral, or moves away from a target object). The 51 videos were paired with two sentence types differing only by verb (causatives: e.g., to crack; perception/ psychological: to check), yielding 102 unique stimuli. These materials also include scene norms. For more details (and for original citation), please check the following paper in Frontiers in Psychology.
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Metaphors and Similes
Norms for copular metaphors (x is y) and similes (x is like y), including properties of topics (x) and vehicles (y) separately. These were published in the journal Behavior Research Methods (2015) and employed in several experiments (see Publications) with healthy participants and Alzheimer's patients. Click here to access the article and the supplementary materials with all norms.
Norms for copular metaphors (x is y) and similes (x is like y), including properties of topics (x) and vehicles (y) separately. These were published in the journal Behavior Research Methods (2015) and employed in several experiments (see Publications) with healthy participants and Alzheimer's patients. Click here to access the article and the supplementary materials with all norms.