Citation

Dataset Paper

If you use the AVS dataset or pyAVS in your research, please cite the dataset paper:

Sulewski, P., Amme, C., König, P., Hebart, M. N., & Kietzmann, T. C. (2026). Active Visual Semantics: A large-scale MEG and eye-tracking dataset for understanding visual intelligence in action. arXiv:2609.01055 [q-bio.NC]. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.01055

@misc{sulewski2026avs,
  author        = {Sulewski, Philip and Amme, Carmen and K{\"o}nig, Peter and
                   Hebart, Martin N. and Kietzmann, Tim C.},
  title         = {Active Visual Semantics: A large-scale {MEG} and eye-tracking
                   dataset for understanding visual intelligence in action},
  year          = {2026},
  eprint        = {2609.01055},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass  = {q-bio.NC},
  doi           = {10.48550/arXiv.2609.01055},
  url           = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.01055},
}

Note

This is currently a preprint (arXiv:2609.01055). If a peer-reviewed version is published later with a different venue/DOI, this page will be updated to point to it.

Software

Analysis code and the pyAVS package are developed at github.com/KietzmannLab/pyavs. If you use pyAVS itself, please also cite/link the repository and, where relevant, the specific release or commit you used.

Corresponding Authors

Philip Sulewski (phsulewski@gmail.com) and Tim C. Kietzmann (tim.kietzmann@uni-osnabrueck.de).