How to select stimuli for environmental sound research and where to find them |
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Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Valeriy?ShafiroEmail author Brian?Gygi |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Communication Disorders and Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, 1015 Armour Academic Center, 1653 W. Congress Parkway, 60612 Chicago, IL;(2) East Bay Institute for Research and Education, Martinez, California |
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Abstract: | A major methodological challenge in environmental sound research is to select appropriate stimuli. When an experiment involves
a large number of sound sources, making custom recordings or producing sounds live is frequently impractical or, for certain
sounds, impossible. Existing databases of environmental sound recordings provide a researcher with a useful alternative. However,
finding and selecting suitable sounds in such databases can be difficult because of the great variety of sounds present, poor
documentation, questionable recording quality, and required purchasing costs. This article describes a number of practical
issues to consider during the stimulus selection process, offers a preliminary compilation of existing resources for obtaining
environmental sound recordings, provides some normative perceptual data that can be used as a reference for selecting stimuli
and evaluating performance, and lists required characteristics and structural aspects of a research-oriented environmental
sound database. |
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