GestuRe and ACtion Exemplar (GRACE) video database: stimuli for research on manners of human locomotion and iconic gestures

被引:5
作者
Aussems, Suzanne [1 ]
Kwok, Natasha [2 ]
Kita, Sotaro [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Warwick, Dept Psychol, Coventry CV4 7AL, W Midlands, England
[2] PLAI Behav Consulting, POB 11010,Gen PO, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Peoples R China
关键词
Action exemplars; Iconic gestures; Human locomotion manners; Video database; Stimuli set; SPEECH; LANGUAGE; MEMORY; LEARN; VERBS;
D O I
10.3758/s13428-017-0942-2
中图分类号
B841 [心理学研究方法];
学科分类号
040201 ;
摘要
Human locomotion is a fundamental class of events, and manners of locomotion (e.g., how the limbs are used to achieve a change of location) are commonly encoded in language and gesture. To our knowledge, there is no openly accessible database containing normed human locomotion stimuli. Therefore, we introduce the GestuRe and ACtion Exemplar (GRACE) video database, which contains 676 videos of actors performing novel manners of human locomotion (i.e., moving from one location to another in an unusual manner) and videos of a female actor producing iconic gestures that represent these actions. The usefulness of the database was demonstrated across four norming experiments. First, our database contains clear matches and mismatches between iconic gesture videos and action videos. Second, the male actors and female actors whose action videos matched the gestures in the best possible way, perform the same actions in very similar manners and different actions in highly distinct manners. Third, all the actions in the database are distinct from each other. Fourth, adult native English speakers were unable to describe the 26 different actions concisely, indicating that the actions are unusual. This normed stimuli set is useful for experimental psychologists working in the language, gesture, visual perception, categorization, memory, and other related domains.
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页码:1270 / 1284
页数:15
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