Links

UW Psychology and related UW sites

• Psychology Department
• Neuroscience Training Program
• Waisman Center
• Waisman Imaging Facility Page
• UW Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
• Applying to the graduate program in psychology

Psycholinguistics stuff

• Language, Word Recognition
  • Easy IPA keyboard input
  • Word Association Thesaurus
  • ARC Nonword Database
  • Google Ngram viewer
  • OLAC Language Resource Catalog
  • Visuwords graphical lexical tool thing
  • OED [requires UW netID]
  • Corpus of Contemporary American English
  • Linguistic inquiry and word count, from Pennebaker lab
  • Chris Harrison: visualizing big data
  • Linguistic Data Consortium (a collection of databases etc., see e.g. their Catalog page)
  • McWord : An Orthographic Wordform Database (web site that provides simple ways to extract information from CELEX. Also allows you to generate nonwords with specifiable degrees of approximation to English orthography)
  • ARC Nonword Database
  • Wuggy (a multi-lingual pseudoword generator)
  • English Lexicon Project (orth/phon/lex information on English words, plus Lexical Decision and Reading Latencies, HAL Frequencies etc.)
  • British National Corpus (English words and phrases)
  • Wordsmith (anagrams, dictionary etc.)
  • Princeton WordNet (Conceptual-semantic networks)
  • Sentence Cloze Probability Norms (for 498 sentences)
  • Leipzig Corpora Collection (search for words in different corpora for different languages)
  • Latent Semantic Analysis (for analysing and comparing texts and documents; more here)
  • dlexDB Project German lexical database
  • Frequencies of word n-grams (from LDC catalog, see above)
  • University of Florida Free Association Norms Free word association norms 
  • Aralex A lexical database for Modern Standard Arabic
  • List of psycholinguistic databases (non-words, word norms, attributes, and more)

• Speech, Sounds and Noises:
  • Noise-Vocoded Speech (look at bottom for how to do it yourself)
  • Praat Software (for analysing and manipulating speech sounds)
  • STRAIGHT (speech manipulation tool)
  • Voicekey software (for off-line voice onset measurements)

Other psychological research

• Emotion Research:
  • International Affective Picture System (IAPS) (normative ratings of emotion (pleasure, arousal, dominance) for a set of color photographs (objects and scenes))
  • International Affective Digital Sounds (IADS)
  • Affective Norms for English Words (ANEW)
  • Affective Norms for English Text (ANET)
• Pictures, Objects, Movies:
  • Snodgrass&Vanderwart Original, and Snodgrass&Vanderwart revisited (visual, semantic and phonological information on line drawings)
  • The International Picture Naming Project (norms for picture naming in 7 different languages, plus some norms for reading and repetition)
  • HMAX HMAX model of object recognition by the Riesenhuber lab
  • Face Recognition (collection of databases)
  • Images and 3D Objects (objects, faces, scenes, events)
  • Database of Visual Eye Movements (DOVES, collection of eye movements from 29 human observers as they viewed 101 natural calibrated images)
  • Novel Object and Unusual Name (NOUN) Database (database of images of novel, unusual object)
  • UCF YouTube Action Video Dataset (videos of 11 action categories)
  • Human Activity Video Datasets (list of datasets with videos of human actions/activities)

Neuroimaging

• BrainMap Project, for standardization, sharing, and meta-analysis of neuroimaging data (incl. ALE, see reference list for more resources)
• Jülich Atlases and Tools, three-dimensional, realistic model of the human brain(JuBrain, BigBrain)
• Brain Atlas (simple and interactive)
• Neurosynth (automated “meta-analysis” of fMRI data)
• Studyforrest (publicly available neuroimaging data)
• MEG-Sim (simulated MEG data)
• Cam-CAN (Cambridge Centre for Aging and Neuroscience large-scale data set)
• Multimodal, multi-subject data set (EMEG and (f)MRI, famous/unfamiliar/scrambled faces)

Other stuff

• UW-Madison events calendar
• the time in Madison
• the weather in Madison
• Designing a conference poster
• PsychWiki Archive (useful links to norms, stimuli, data etc.)
• Overview of Published Norms (From “Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers” – up to 1999)
• “Mix and Match” Software (for stimulus matching and pseudorandomising)
• MGH OptSeq (Randomization tool for event-related fMRI designs)
• fmripower (matlab based power calculation tool for group fMRI studies)
• The R Project for Statistical Computing
• R Seek (Search engine for R-related issues)
• Open Science Framework (on-line depository for pre-registered studies)