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Perception of biological motion: A stimulus set of human point-light actions
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Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers
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November 1, 2004
- Author:
- Vanrie, Jan; Verfaillie, Karl
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Copyright informationCopyright Psychonomic Society, Inc. Nov 2004. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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We present a set of stimuli representing human actions under point-light conditions, as seen from different viewpoints. The set contains 22 fairly short, well-delineated, and visually "loopable" actions. For each action, we provide movie files from five different viewpoints as well as a text file with the three spatial coordinates of the point lights, allowing researchers to construct customized versions. The full set of stimuli may be downloaded from www.psychonomic.org/archive/.
An important factor in the advancement of many fields of research is the diversity of suitable stimulus material. One class of stimuli where this diversity has been rather limited is the visual representation of ...