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Confrontation Naming of Environmental Sounds A .pdf copy of our 2007 manuscript: Marcell, M.M., Borella, D., Greene, M., Kerr, E., & Rogers, S. (2000). Confrontation naming of environmental sounds. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 22(6), 830-864. The co-authors - Diane Borella, Mike Greene, Elizabeth Kerr, and Summer Rogers - are all Psychology majors who graduated from the College of Charleston. Abstract: The development of a set of everyday, nonverbal, digitized sounds for use in auditory confrontation naming applications is described. Normative data are reported for 120 sounds of varying lengths representing a wide variety of acoustic events such as sounds produced by animals, people, musical instruments, tools, signals, and liquids. In Study 1, criteria for scoring naming accuracy were developed and rating data were gathered on degree of confidence in sound identification and the perceived familiarity, complexity, and pleasantness of the sounds. In Study 2, the previously-developed criteria for scoring naming accuracy were applied to the naming responses of a new sample of subjects, and oral naming times were measured. In Study 3 data were gathered on how subjects categorized the sounds: In the first categorization task--free classification--subjects generated category descriptions for the sounds; in the second task--constrained classification--a different sample of subjects selected the most appropriate category label for each sound from a list of 27 labels generated in the first task. Tables are provided in which the 120 stimuli are sorted by familiarity, complexity, pleasantness, duration, naming accuracy, speed of identification, and category placement. The .WAV sound files are freely available to researchers and clinicians via a sound archive on the World Wide Web; the URL is http://www.cofc.edu/~marcellm/confront.htm. Sound Stimuli and Disclaimers: The sounds are in .WAV format, the format in which the normative data were gathered. Because some of the stimuli are edited versions of sound clips that were originally recorded and made commercially available for royalty-free use by sound effects library vendors, use of the sounds is restricted to non-profit scientific and clinical investigations. Research reports using any stimuli from this sound set should give appropriate professional credit using the following reference: Reference: Marcell, M.M., Borella, D., Greene, M., Kerr, E., & Rogers, S. (2000). Confrontation naming of environmental sounds. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 22(6), 830-864. Users are 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 files are obtained and "unzipped" they can be incorporated into any of several commercially-available multimedia software programs for presentation as a "slideshow" of sounds for use in psychological applications, such as the assessment of word-finding difficulties in special populations. Go to the sound stimuli...
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