BLOGS, WIKIS, OTHER STIMULI DATABASES, AND OTHER STUFF
In no particular order....
(please note that you will probably need to seek permission to use these resources)
BLOGS AND WIKIs:
A comprehensive stats blog by Professor Thom Baguley (Nottingham Trent University: LAB MEMBER.) with links (covers R, SAS, Data Visualization, Data Mining, Bayesian, and Machine Learning. Also has featured blogs):
A very useful blog about topical issues and it’s jam packed with useful (quite often free) software, how to build your own hardware, links and goodness knows what else. It’s run by Dr Matt Wall (a neuroscientist from UCL) and is well worth a look
The cognitive atlas is a ‘collaborative knowledge building project that aims to develop a knowledge base (or ontology) that characterizes the state of current thought in cognitive science’ according to the web blurb. It is run by Professor Russell Poldrack, at the University of Texas at Austin, in collaboration with people at UCLA Center for Computational Biology.
Brain anatomy learning resource
A fun (teaching) and learning package about brain anatomy on the web.
Stats related
From Rstudio - Rmarkdown for fully reproducible documents. Rmarkdown allows you to integrate your raw data, your analysis scripts, , the results of your analyses, and a narrative text, all together in one file.
StatCheck : Wanna check for errors in your reported statistics? A free online tool for just that job.
Free to use databases (scales measurements etc):
MIDSS - Measurement instrument data base. This has been provided by the Whitaker Institute for Innovation and Societal Change at the National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
It requires a sign up but it’s free.
International Personality Item Pool (IPIP): this is described as, a scientific collaboratory for the Development of Advanced Measures of Personality and Other Individual Differences
The IPIP is intended to provde users with fast and easy access to a range of personality and individual differences scales/measuresand are they are all in the public domain. this is a collaborative endevour by people from all round the world (or that's the idea). the site also contains (or it should) researcher's raw data (for reanalysis) and was intended to act as a place where for sharing and discussing ideas in Psychometrics and research findings
Natural Scenes
The Southampton-York Natural Scenes (SYNS) data set , is held at Southampton University and contains 100 rural and urban location images along with 3D data measures. You need to register.
If you use the set or any part of it please make sure you Cite:
Adams, W. J., Elder, J. H., Graf, E. W., Leyland, J., Lugtigheid, A. J., & Muryy, A. (2016). The southampton-york natural scenes (syns) dataset: Statistics of surface attitude. Scientific reports, 6, 35805.
Everyday images
Reachspace Database. The Reachspace database contains more than 10,000 images of everyday environment (at near scale). Includes places we work, study, play, eat, worship, play music, brewer tea, store things and lots more.
Details of Emilie Josephs’ database can be found on the website and on here (don’t forget to cite)
Josephs, E. L., Zhao, H., & Konkle, T. (2021, April 14). The world within reach: an image database of reach-relevant environments. Retrieved from psyarxiv.com/gy4wk
Emotion, disgust or pathogen invoking stimuli (******Trigger warning: some of these images are graphic*******:
The International Affective Picture System (IAPS) Probably the best know of this type of stimuli. The IAPS is a colour set of emotion invoking images with normative emotion ratings (pleasure, arousal, dominance). You will need to make a formal request to use these (see web page).
International Affective Digital Sounds (IADS) - less well know. The IADS is of emotion invoking accoustic stimuli. You will need to make a formal request to use these (see web page).
The OASIS image database. from Benedek Kurdi can be found here or here. This is a free to use alternative database of emotion invoking stimuli (open-access online: 900 colour positive/negative valenced images)
Massive Auditory Lexical Decision (MALD) database .
Brought to you by the University of Alberta: The MALD database “is an end-to-end, freely available auditory and production data set for speech and psycholinguistic research, providing time-aligned stimulus recordings for over 26,000 words and 9,500 pseudowords, and response data for auditory lexical decisions. The data set is meant to make it easy to explore, build and test theories, and compare a wide range of models.”
Data handling
Combining Experimental Data
Putting all your data in one file can help simplify and automate your analysis but many experimental programs generate a different file for each participant. The steps below describe how to combine “.CSV” files, which are commonly used in research, especially with OpenSesame.
For other methods, see
Useful free images (for lectures, talks, etc)
Some free-to-use images or including a citation of the image for PowerPoint presentations and other documentation
https://unsplash.com/ (probably the best out of the three)
Other labs and some other interesting stuff too
This is a a sort of 'friends' page though we don't know everyone on here, we just like their work. And other interesting links. It also includes some new stimuli that we have been developing over the summer of 2018 with our SPUR (summer project undergraduate researcher) student. In no particular order...
Interview with Andy Young:
Here is an interview with the eminent face researcher (and jolly nice man to boot) Professor Andy Young, via the supplementary resources section of his QJEP Faces, people and the brain: The 45th Sir Frederic Bartlett Lecture, for the EPS. The paper is available here:
You can also visit Professor Mike Burton's York Face Variation Lab here:
Changing Faces:
Changing faces have been campaigning since 1992, to help and support people with disfigurement so that they can, 'live the life they want'. they campaign to empower individuals, raise positive awareness of disfigurement, to educate, inform, and to change the culture in which we all live for the better. They offer advice and support.
The Face Research Lab
Ben Jones & Lisa DeBruine prolific and hugely influential The Face Research Lab. There's tones of stuff here (not just faces), and most definitely well worth a visit (if you've never seen it). they're big advocates of open science, and very generous with their resources.
The Centre for face processing disorders
Home to Dr Sarah Bate's Face Research Center at the University of Bournemouth. There's lost f interesting things here and you should get a copy of her book too.
Super recognizes
"Are you a Super Recognizer?" - find out here at Dr Josh Davis Univeristy of Greenwich web page. He also has an excellent book.
Face Recognition Research Group at Teesside University
Home to face research at Teeside University via Dr Natalie Butcher (N.Butcher@tees.ac.uk) and Laura Sexton (L.Sexton@tees.ac.uk) They also have a link to Face Blind UK a group who aim to better understand and raise awareness of prosopagnosia.
Icelandic Vision Lab
The Icelandic Vision Lab is interested in all things visual, particularly the higher-level or “cognitive” aspects of visual perception
They have resources resources for Synaesthesia research and other stuff too. Check them out. CONTACT: visionlab@hi.is
Hummingbird project
The Hummingbird Project this is an EPSRC funded project (Human-Like Computing), based as Southampton, It is aimed at improving biometric analysis. - they seek “to identify the strategies used by humans when identifying one another, and to build these into computer algorithms in order to improve performance”