Brain & Cognition Unit, Department of Psychology, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany.
Behav Res Methods. 2012 Dec;44(4):946-53. doi: 10.3758/s13428-012-0189-x.
Stimulus material for studying object-directed actions is needed in different research contexts, such as action observation, action memory, and imitation. Action items have been generated many times in individual laboratories across the world, but they are used in very few experiments. For future studies in the field, it would be worthwhile to have a larger set of action stimulus material available to a broader research community. Some smaller action databases have already been published, but those often focus on psycholinguistic parameters and static action stimuli. With this article, we introduce an action database with dynamic action stimuli. The database contains action descriptions of 1,754 object-directed actions that have been rated for familiarity in Germany and in China. For 784 of these actions, action video clips are available. With the use of our database, it is possible to identify actions that differ in familiarity between Western and Eastern cultures. This variable may be of interest to some researchers in the field, since it has been shown that familiarity influences action information processing. Action descriptions are listed and categorized in tables that can be downloaded, along with the corresponding video clips, as supplemental material.
在不同的研究背景下，如动作观察、动作记忆和模仿，都需要有研究物体定向动作的刺激材料。世界各地的各个实验室已经多次生成了动作项目，但这些项目在极少数实验中使用。对于该领域的未来研究，有必要为更广泛的研究群体提供更大的一套动作刺激材料。已经发表了一些较小的动作数据库，但这些数据库通常侧重于心理语言学参数和静态动作刺激。本文介绍了一个具有动态动作刺激的动作数据库。该数据库包含了 1754 个针对德国和中国的熟悉度进行评分的物体定向动作的动作描述。对于这些动作中的 784 个，有动作视频剪辑可供使用。使用我们的数据库，可以识别出在西方和东方文化中熟悉度不同的动作。对于该领域的一些研究人员来说，这个变量可能很有趣，因为已经表明熟悉度会影响动作信息处理。动作描述列在可以下载的表格中，并附有相应的视频剪辑，作为补充材料。
