Inharmonic Pitch perception

Pitch-related music and speech tasks using conventional harmonic sounds and inharmonic sounds whose frequencies lack a common F0.

Authors:  Malinda J. McPherson & Josh H. McDermott
Updated:  2017-12-11
Source:  http://mcdermottlab.mit.edu/Diversity_In_Pitch_Perception.html
Keywords:  pitch,  frequency,  music,  speech

The Box Task

The Box Task is a paradigm for the computerized assessment of visuospatial working memory.

Authors:  Roy P. C. Kessels & Albert Postma
Updated:  2017-09-15
Source:  https://roykessels.nl/tests-and-software/box-task
Keywords:  working-memory,  psychology,  experiment,  English,  Dutch

ASL Signbank

An annotation tool for ASL videos with ELAN and ASL SLAASH conventions

Authors:  Julie A. Hochgesang,  Onno Crasborn,  Diane Lillo-Martin.
Updated:  2017-04-30
Source:  https://aslsignbank.haskins.yale.edu/
Keywords:  ASL,  glosses,  translation,  English,  Video

Reverberation

A large-scale statistical analysis of real-world acoustics, revealing strong regularities of reverberation in natural scenes.

Authors:  James Traer & Josh H. McDermott
Updated:  2016-11-29
Source:  http://mcdermottlab.mit.edu/Reverb/ReverbSummary.html
Keywords:  sound,  audition,  periphery

MouseTracker

MouseTracker is a freely available, user-friendly software package that allows researchers to record and analyze hand movements traveling toward potential responses on the screen (via the x, y coordinates of the computer mouse).

Authors:  Jon Freeman & Nalini Ambady
Updated:  2016-04-30
Source:  http://www.mousetracker.org/
Keywords:  software,  cognition,  psychology,  experiment

The TimeStudio Project

The TimeStudio Project is dedicated to the behavioral and brain sciences and is a completely free scientific workflow tool. TimeStudio allow researchers to quickly build a sequence of analysis steps by using a modular plugin structure.

Authors:  Pär Nyström,  Terje Falck-Ytter,  Gustaf Gredebäck
Updated:  2016-04-30
Source:  http://timestudioproject.com/
Keywords:  psychology,  experiment,  MATLAB,  neuroscience,  database

Similarity Neighborhood Calculator

A web-based calculator to compute phonological similarity neighborhoods (including neighborhood density and neighborhood frequency).

Authors:  Michael Vitevitch
Updated:  2016-04-30
Source:  https://calculator.ku.edu/density/about
Keywords:  neighborhood-density,  phonological-neighbors,  phonetics,  psychology,  Arabic,  English,  Spanish

Natural Sounds Stimulus Set

The sound set includes 165 natural sounds, each 2-seconds in duration. The sounds were intended to include many of the sounds people commonly hear in their daily life.

Authors:  Sam Norman-Haignere,  Nancy G. Kanwisher,  Josh H. McDermott
Updated:  2015-11-30
Source:  http://mcdermottlab.mit.edu/svnh/Natural-Sound/Stimuli.html
Keywords:  speech,  music,  stimuli,  frequency,  German,  French,  Italian,  Russian,  Hindi,  Chinese

Da Amazing Voice Inflection Device

DAVID (Da Amazing Voice Inflection Device) is a free, real-time voice transformation tool able to “colour” any voice recording with an emotion that wasn’t intended by its speaker.

Authors:  Marco Liuni,  Petter Johansson,  Lars Hall,  Rodrigo Segnini,  Katsumi Watanabe,  Daniel Richardson
Updated:  2015-09-21
Source:  http://cream.ircam.fr/?p=44
Keywords:  language,  emotion,  psychology,  neuroscience,  French,  English,  Swedish,  Japanese

Attentive Tracking of Sound Sources

Humans track sound sources through feature space with a movable focus of attention. Attentive tracking aids segregation of similar sound sources.

Authors:  Kevin J.P. Woods & Josh H. McDermott
Updated:  2015-08-31
Source:  http://mcdermottlab.mit.edu/attentive_tracking/index.html
Keywords:  sound-source,  speech,  audition