title: The Multilingual CID-5: A New Tool to Study the Perception of Communicative Interactions in Different Languages.
abstract: The investigation of the ability to perceive, recognize, and judge upon social intentions, such as communicative intentions, on the basis of body motion is a growing research area. Cross-cultural differences in ability to perceive and interpret biological motion, however, have been poorly investigated so far. Progress in this domain strongly depends on the availability of suitable stimulus material. In the present method paper, we describe the multilingual CID-5, an extension of the CID-5 database, allowing for the investigation of how non-conventional communicative gestures are classified and identified by speakers of different languages. The CID-5 database contains 14 communicative interactions and 7 non-communicative actions performed by couples of agents and presented as point-light displays. For each action, the database provides movie files with the point-light animation, text files with the 3-D spatial coordinates of the point-lights, and five different response alternatives. In the multilingual CID-5 the alternatives were translated into seven languages (Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, and Polish). Preliminary data collected to assess the recognizability of the actions in the different languages suggest that, for most of the action stimuli, information presented in point-light displays is sufficient for the distinctive classification of the action as communicative vs. individual, as well as for identification of the specific communicative gesture performed by the actor in all the available languages.
authors.affiliation: CoBTeK Laboratory, Faculty of Medicine, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis Nice, France.
authors.forename: Valeria
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Manera
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Turin Turin, Italy.
authors.forename: Francesco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ianì
authors.affiliation: CoBTeK Laboratory, Faculty of Medicine, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis Nice, France.
authors.forename: Jérémy
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bourgeois
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw Warsaw, Poland.
authors.forename: Maciej
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Haman
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw Warsaw, Poland.
authors.forename: Łukasz P
authors.initials: ŁP
authors.lastname: Okruszek
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Center for Mind and Brain & The MIND Institute, University of California, Davis Davis, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Susan M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Rivera
authors.affiliation: CoBTeK Laboratory, Faculty of Medicine, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis Nice, France ; Centre Mémoire de Ressources et de Recherche, CHU de Nice Nice, France.
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Robert
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Cologne Cologne, Germany ; Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry Munich, Germany.
authors.forename: Leonhard
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Schilbach
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Center for Mind and Brain & The MIND Institute, University of California, Davis Davis, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Emily
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Sievers
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Experimental Psychology, KU Leuven Leuven, Belgium.
authors.forename: Karl
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Verfaillie
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Cologne Cologne, Germany ; Cognitive Neuroscience - Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM3), Research Center Jülich Jülich, Germany.
authors.forename: Kai
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Vogeley
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Heinrich-Heine-University of Düsseldorf, Rhineland State Clinics Düsseldorf Düsseldorf, Germany.
authors.forename: Tabea
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: von der Lühe
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Experimental Psychology, KU Leuven Leuven, Belgium.
authors.forename: Sam
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Willems
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Turin Turin, Italy ; Department of Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia Genova, Italy.
authors.forename: Cristina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Becchio
keywords: biological motion; communicative intention; communicative interaction; cross-linguistic comparisons; forced choice; individual intention; point-light display