Research on Sound Events
To learn about our research on sound events, you may wish to read the following:
* A .pdf copy of our 2006 manuscript published in Behavior Research Methods (this link will become active when the file becomes available)
* A brief summary of the poster presented at APA in August, 2005
Although data collection for this study has finished, you are welcome to participate in any of the Sound Event studies below. Click here first to determine whether you have the free Macromedia Authorware browser plugin that is needed to run the studies.
Sound Stimuli and Disclaimers: The sound event stimuli are in .WAV format, the format in which the normative data were gathered. Because many of the stimuli incorporate edited versions of sound clips that were originally recorded and made commercially available for royalty-free use by sound effects library vendors, use of these files is restricted to non-profit scientific and clinical investigations. Users are specificially prohibited from collecting and republishing the items as a separate test or as part of a sound effects collection. The authors of this study and their institutions assume no liability related to the downloading and/or use of these items.
Once the sound event files are obtained and "unzipped" they can be incorporated into any of several commercially-available multimedia software programs for presentation. If you would like to download a copy of the sound event stimuli used in this study, they are compressed into zip files and posted in this Sound Event Archive.