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Stimuli
This website lists a bunch of different stimulus databases
Scenes
VAMOS (Valence, Arousal, and Memorability of Scenes;
from Wakeland-Hart & Aly, 2023)
FIGRIM Dataset (images from SUN database, with memorability scores)
FIGRIM Fixation Dataset (images from FIGRIM dataset, with eye fixation data)
Large-scale Image Memorability ( 60,000 images from diverse sources)
UC Davis Visual Cognition Lab Meaning Map Repository (scenes and their ‘meaning maps’, which show spatial distribution of semantic information within each scene)
Google Open Images (object-oriented scenes)
Art & Room stimuli (from Aly & Turk-Browne, 2016, Cerebral Cortex and PNAS papers)
Scene perception stimuli (from Aly & Yonelinas, 2012, PLoS One and Aly et al., 2013, Neuron)
Objects
Object Memorability Image Normed Database Software (From the Duncan lab; generates custom stimulus sets from a bank of 1748 normed images)
Objects and similar lures (Mnemonic Similarity Task from Stark Lab)
Yet more objects (from Wilma Bainbridge)
DinoLab Object Database (1000 object images with visual & semantic norms)
Common Objects in Context (COCO)
Possible and Impossible Objects (courtesy of Erez Freud; read how to use and cite here)
THINGS object concept and object image database (1,800+ object concepts and 26,000 object images!)
Line drawings (50 million of them!)
Artificially generated (novel) objects
Faces
AI-generated faces (millions of them!)
10k US Adult Faces Database (follows the demographics of 1990 US census)
American Multiracial Face Database (110 faces with mixed-race heritage)
Face Place (Tarr Lab)
Face Research Lab (faces of diverse ethnicity & age)
Face databases (collection by Ryan Stolier)
Psychological Image Collection at Stirling (PICS)
Dynamic Stimuli
Video clips of hand gestures and interactions with objects
Moments in time — 3-second videos with labeled actions (1 million of them!)
COIN dataset (instructional videos)
Emotional Videos from Ottawa (DEVO-2; 1300+ brief video clips rated on valence, arousal, impact, and familiarity)
Colors
Perceptually uniform continuous color colormaps
Perceptually distinctive colors for categorical data
Shapes