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We present the first database of communicative interactions reproduced through point-light displays (Communicative Interaction Database). The database contains 20 communicative interactions performed by male and by female couples. For each action, we provide movie files from four different viewpoints, as well as text files with the 3-D spatial coordinates of the point lights, allowing researchers to construct customized versions. By including various types of actions performed with different social motives, the database contains a diverse sample of nonconventional communicative gestures. Normative data collected to assess the recognizability of the stimuli suggest that, for most action stimuli, information in point-light displays is sufficient for clear recognition of the action as communicative, as well as for identification of the specific communicative gesture performed by the actor. The full set of stimuli may be downloaded from http://brm.psychonomic-journals.org/ content/supplemental and from http://ppw.kuleuven.be/labexppsy/lepSite/resources/CID.rar.
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This research was supported by a grant from the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Torino-Progetto Alfieri, and by the Scientific Research Fund Flanders, FWO G.0621.07: audiovisual perception of biological motion.
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Manera, V., Schouten, B., Becchio, C. et al. Inferring intentions from biological motion: A stimulus set of point-light communicative interactions. Behavior Research Methods 42, 168–178 (2010). https://doi.org/10.3758/BRM.42.1.168
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