Horst Jessica S, Hout Michael C
School of Psychology, University of Sussex, Pevensey 1 Building, Falmer, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 9QH, UK.
Department of Psychology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, USA.
Behav Res Methods. 2016 Dec;48(4):1393-1409. doi: 10.3758/s13428-015-0647-3.
Many experimental research designs require images of novel objects. Here we introduce the Novel Object and Unusual Name (NOUN) Database. This database contains 64 primary novel object images and additional novel exemplars for ten basic- and nine global-level object categories. The objects' novelty was confirmed by both self-report and a lack of consensus on questions that required participants to name and identify the objects. We also found that object novelty correlated with qualifying naming responses pertaining to the objects' colors. The results from a similarity sorting task (and a subsequent multidimensional scaling analysis on the similarity ratings) demonstrated that the objects are complex and distinct entities that vary along several featural dimensions beyond simply shape and color. A final experiment confirmed that additional item exemplars comprised both sub- and superordinate categories. These images may be useful in a variety of settings, particularly for developmental psychology and other research in the language, categorization, perception, visual memory, and related domains.
许多实验研究设计都需要新颖物体的图像。在此，我们介绍新颖物体与奇特名称（NOUN）数据库。该数据库包含64张主要的新颖物体图像以及十个基本级别和九个全局级别物体类别的额外新颖示例。通过自我报告以及在要求参与者命名和识别物体的问题上缺乏共识，证实了物体的新颖性。我们还发现物体新颖性与关于物体颜色的合格命名反应相关。相似性排序任务的结果（以及随后对相似性评级的多维尺度分析）表明，这些物体是复杂且独特的实体，它们在简单的形状和颜色之外，还沿着几个特征维度变化。最后一项实验证实，额外的项目示例包括下属和上级类别。这些图像可能在各种环境中有用，特别是对于发展心理学以及语言、分类、感知、视觉记忆和相关领域的其他研究。
