Aussems, Suzanne, Kwok, Natasha and Kita, Sotaro (2018) GestuRe and ACtion Exemplar (GRACE) video database : stimuli for research on manners of human locomotion and iconic gestures. Behavior Research Methods, 50 (3). pp. 1270-1284. doi:10.3758/s13428-017-0942-2 ISSN 1554-3528.
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Abstract
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.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology Q Science > QP Physiology |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology |
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Human locomotion -- Psychological aspects -- Databases, Gesture |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Behavior Research Methods |
| Publisher: | The Psychonomic Society |
| ISSN: | 1554-3528 |
| Official Date: | June 2018 |
| Dates: | Date Event June 2018 Published 15 September 2017 Available 8 August 2017 Updated 30 June 2017 Accepted |
| Volume: | 50 |
| Number: | 3 |
| Page Range: | pp. 1270-1284 |
| DOI: | 10.3758/s13428-017-0942-2 |
| Status: | Peer Reviewed |
| Publication Status: | Published |
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons open licence) |
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 18 July 2017 |
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 18 September 2017 |
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| URI: | https://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/78492/ |
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