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Snodgrass and Vanderwart "Like" Objects

(.zip archive) Apparently Joan Snodgrass has sold the copyright to the original images in the "Snodgrass and Vanderwart" image set to a for-profit company of some sort. Each time someone purchases the images from the company, she gets some share of the fee. This is all rather odd in that APA might hold the copyright per the standard agreement we sign on publication. No other identification of copyright appears in the original article. Moreover, charging for stimuli used in a published study seems pretty contrary to the spirit of academic exchange. In any case the company verbally told me to remove these images from my web site, so I have done so. The fact of the matter is that the original images are very poor quality and using such line drawings can produce misleading results, so you are MUCH better off using this new set of colored and shaded images commissioned by Bruno Rossion (Brown University and University of Louvain, Belgium) and Gilles Pourtois (Tilburg University, The Netherlands). Normative data similar to the original Snodgrass and Vanderwart paper (1980) have been collected. Each of these images was loosely based on an image from the original Snodgrass and Vanderwart set. Please cite the following paper in any presentation or published research using these new images: Rossion, B., & Pourtois, G. (2004). Revisiting Snodgrass and Vanderwart's object set: The role of surface detail in basic-level object recognition. Perception, 33, 217-236.

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