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EmoMadrid: An emotional pictures database for affect research

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Emotional scenes are, along with facial expressions, the most employed stimuli in Affective Sciences. However, as compared to facial expressions, available emotional scene databases are scarce and, in some cases, obsolete and overused. This paper describes EmoMadrid (http://www.psicologiauam.es/CEACO/EmoMadrid.htm), an open access database currently consisting of 813 emotional pictures. Valence and Arousal of each of these pictures were assessed by an average sample of 146 volunteers per session, who evaluated an average of 155 pictures each. Total participants up to the present is 768. EmoMadrid includes information, not provided in other databases, on low order visual parameters such as spatial frequency, luminosity, and chromatic complexity. These parameters are of crucial interest, since they have been revealed to interact with the affective content of pictures. EmoMadrid shows a robust short and long term reliability (under and over 5 years, respectively) and has already been employed in 15 Human Neuroscience and Behavior published studies, despite it has only been described in its web page.

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  1. A search carried out in February 2019 in Google Scholar introducing, enclosed in double quotes, the complete name of all emotional scene databases described here (from 2016, the year in which the most recent was created, to present) yielded 4380 results for IAPS and less than 200 for each of the rest.

  2. IAPS: 5 s. GAPED: 4 s. NAPS: 3 s. In OASIS, stimulus duration is self-paced by evaluators.

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Acknowledgements

We wish to thank Elisabeth Ruiz Padial and Francisco Mercado for their help in the assessment of EmoMadrid pictures at the Universidad de Jaén and Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, respectively. We also acknowledge the disinterested contribution made by the photographers Galder Izaguirre, Víctor Nogales, Óscar Rodrigo and Jordi García-Pons.

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This work was supported by the FEDER/Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (PGC2018-093570-B-I00) and by the Comunidad de Madrid (S2015/HUM-3327).

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Carretié, L., Tapia, M., López-Martín, S. et al. EmoMadrid: An emotional pictures database for affect research. Motiv Emot 43, 929–939 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-019-09780-y

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