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John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Early Experience & Brain Development
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MISSION
The Research Network on Early Experience and Brain Development was founded in 1998 to address questions of how the experiences of early childhood are incorporated into the structures of the developing brain, and how, in turn, those changes in the structures of the brain influence behavior. The network explores how knowledge of brain development can guide us in our understanding of behavioral development and vice versa. It focuses specifically on sensitive periods and neural plasticity, the reciprocal phenomena whereby (a) the brain is negatively affected if certain experiences fail to occur within a certain time period, and (b) the brain is altered by experience at virtually any point in the life span. Here we consider not only how the structure of experience is incorporated into the structure of the brain, but also how this knowledge can influence the decisions we make about intervening in the lives of children.
This Research Network was supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and completed its work in 2005.
Additional information regarding this Research Network can be found here.
RESOURCES
NimStim Face Stimulus Set
The Research Network on Early Experience and Brain Development has developed a battery of 646 facial expression stimuli for use in its own and other studies of face and emotion recognition.
Images include the following expressions, displayed by a variety of models of various genders and races: fearful, happy, sad, angry, surprised, calm, neutral, disgusted.
We request that you include the following citation in your reference section of your manuscript:
Tottenham, N., Tanaka, J., Leon, A.C., McCarry, T., Nurse, M., Hare, T.A., Marcus, D.J., Westerlund, A., Casey, B.J., Nelson, C.A. (in press). The NimStim set of facial expressions: judgments from untrained research participants. Psychiatry Research.
We are making these stimuli available to the public free of charge. We require registration and acceptance of our terms and conditions to use the stimulus set.
By downloading the set, you agree to use the images for research purposes only and agree to the following terms:
Only models #01, 03, 18, 21,21, 28, 40, & 45 may be published, and these may only be published in scientific journals. Researchers may not publish images from the remaining models anywhere.
To download the NimStim, please send an email to nimtottenham@ucla.edu with the following information. You will be sent an email containing download instructions.
1. the research institution information (address & phone)
2. the names and emails of the laboratory head & PIs
3. a description of the research study
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