ORCA: A picture database of object-scene arrangements for cross-cultural and aging research.

ABSTRACT: In recent years, cross-cultural research on the modulation of basic cognitive processes by culture has intensified - also from an aging perspective. Despite this increased research interest, only a few cross-culturally normed non-verbal stimulus sets are available to support cross-cultural cognitive research in younger and older adults. Here we present the ORCA (Official Rating of Complex Arrangements) picture database, which includes a total of 720 object-scene compositions sorted into 180 quadruples (e.g., two different helmets placed in two different deserts). Each quadruple contains visually and semantically matched pairs of objects and pairs of scenes with varying degrees of semantic fit between objects and scenes. A total of 95 younger and older German and Chinese adults rated every

SUBMITTER: Weigl M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9879563 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature