Resources in our repository exist in different languages, for different types of materials, as well as for different categories of material.

Thanks to the use of Standards for the storage and description of these resources, they can all be listed from a single access point, as demonstrated here.

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Amsterdam Library of Object Images (ALOI)

1000 objects under different angles and different lighting conditions. Royalty Free?

Fribbles Stimulus Sets

Fribble stimuli used in several experiments. Within each Fribble species, the exact shape, color, and texture of the main body and the approximate location and interrelationships between appendage parts are held constant for all exemplars. Colors and textures of appendage parts are also similar (although not identical) across exemplars. The main aspect that changes from exemplar to exemplar in a species is the exact shape of the appendage parts.

Action Picture Stimuli in IPNP

Black and white drawings of 275 transitive and intransitive actions from different sources.

Object Picture Stimuli in IPNP

Black and white drawings of 520 common objects (including 174 pictures from the Snodgrass & Vanderwart set and other sources.)

Diagnostic Color Objects

Color images of many diagnostic color objects, e.g., a banana. Objects are shown in typical and atypical colors. There are also control sets of neutral color objects. The orignal set were used as stimuli in Naor-Raz, Tarr, & Kersten (2003)

Grayscale pictures of 31 chairs -- Bruno Rossion

Grayscale pictures of 31 chairs garnered from various sources by Bruno Rossion at the Universite Catholique de Louvain. Bruno has scaled all of the images to the same size, orientation, and brightness. Bruno asks that if you are going to use the chairs, please contact him at rossion@neco.ucl.ac.be and let him know what you are up to. The images are STANDARD COLORS grayscale PICTS.

Colorized Snodgrass and Vanderwart pictures -- Rossion & Pourtois (2004)

The authors have created a new set of stimuli based on the widely used line drawings of Snodgrass and Vanderwart (1980). These 260 stimuli contain diagnostic texture and color information. Normative data (naming agreement and latencies, complexity, familiarity, imaginability) for these new stimuli have been collected (Rossion & Pourtois, 2004). Their data shows that surface information, color in particular, greatly facilitates object recognition.

If you download the set and wish to use it in an experimental/clinical study, a donation of $30-$50 to help defray their costs would be most welcome. You can send correspondence about contributing to Bruno Rossion.

Royalty Free Clipart Images

A long list of links for royalty free or free to use clipart images.

Royalty Free Photos

A long list of links for royalty free or free of use photos.

Change Blindness Scenes

This set of scenes were used as stimuli in the studies reported in Aginsky & Tarr (2000) set contains many variants of individual scenes. Variants were generated by either moving or changing the color of some element of the scene. The images are color PICT files.

Object Data Bank

Michael Tarr (with the artistic help of Scott Yu) has developed a wonderful data bank of three-dimensional objects from numerous views.

Viperlib, visual perception library

Viperlib is a web-based resource library of images and presentation material illuminating the study of visual perception. (more than 2000 images)

All images are given freely by the vision research community and are available for educational, non-profit use only.

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Lexical norms for pictures, Martein (2005)

This work presents the results of a normative data collection study of 216 pictures which can be used in a wide range of cognitive experiments. Black-and-white line drawings of 216 objects, belonging to 20 large semantic categories, were rated by a sample of 300 first-year psychology students at the University of Ghent. These ratings provided data on several variables of central importance to cognitive processing and memory functioning: name agreement, concept agreement, familiarity, visual complexity and image agreement. The following semantic categories were included in the set: 1. Article of clothing, 2. Birds, 3. Electronical appliances, 4. Fish, shells, ..., 5. Flowers, plants, ..., 6. Food, 7. Fruit, 8. Furniture and decoration, 9. Insects, 10. Kitchen-utensils, 11. Mammals, 12. Miscellaneous, 13. Musical instruments, 14. Parts of a building, 15. Parts of the human body, 16. Reptiles and amphibians, 17. Tools, 18. Vegetables, 19. Vehicles, 20. Weapons

Lexical norms for pictures, Severens et al. (2005)

Timed norms for 590 pictures in Belgian Dutch, with name agreement and response latencies.

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Norms for timed picture naming

The UCSD Center for Research in Language is engaged in a large international study to provide norms for timed picture naming in seven different languages (American English, German, Mexican Spanish, Italian, Bulgarian, Hungarian, and the variant of Mandarin Chinese spoken in Taiwan). They currently have data for over 500 pictures.

french

Bonin et al. (2003)

French norms for name agreement, image agreement, conceptual familiarity, visual complexity, image variability, age of acquisition, and naming latencies

Schwitter et al. (2004)

French normative data and naming times for action pictures

spanish

Cuetos & Alija (2003)

Normative data and naming times for action pictures in Spanish

Cuetos et al. (1999)

Naming times for the Snodgrass and Vanderwart pictures in Spanish

Dasi et al. (2004)

Normative data on the familiarity and difficulty of 196 Spanish word fragments

Fernandez et al. (2004)

Free-association norms for the Spanish names of the Snodgrass and Vanderwart pictures in Spanish