An older man's eyes, looking straight at the camera
One of the photographs in the set.Every face was generated. None of them is a real person.

The photographs, the words and every description

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41

Photographs, the 40 in the test and the practice one, each in two sizes.

2

Languages. The question, the words and their meanings in English and Spanish.

CC0

For the photographs. CC BY 4.0 for the words, meanings, item file and answer counts.

What is in the release

Photographs
All 41 at 1200 by 480 pixels, as the test shows them, and at full size, 1983 by 793.
Words
For every photograph, its answer and the three other words, in English and Spanish, in items.json and items.csv.
Meanings
A one-line meaning for every word, in both languages, the same ones the test shows.
Descriptions
The paragraph every photograph shares and the full description of each one, in prompts.md.
Answer counts
Coming once a photograph has 225 answers: how many people chose each word, and which photographs stayed.

What you may do with it

Photographs: CC0 1.0

Anything, for any purpose, without asking and without credit.

Words, meanings and item files: CC BY 4.0

Anything, with credit to Neuropsych, neuropsych.io.

How they were made

With GPT Image through the OpenAI Codex command line. No photograph shows a real person, and nothing here comes from another test.

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Citing the set

Neuropsych (2026). Reading the Eyes: an open eyes-only emotion reading test. https://github.com/cristiandominguezrl/reading-the-eyes

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