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The sound set included 165 natural sounds, each 2-seconds in duration. The sounds were intended to include many of the sounds people commonly hear in their daily life. Sounds were selected by first compiling a larger collection of 280 sounds that people commonly hear. We then discarded sounds that people had trouble recognizing (<80% performance on a 10-way forced choice recognition task, conducted online using Mechanical Turk). From those remaining, we selected the sounds that people rated as the most frequently heard in their daily lives (determined using an online survey, also conducted using Mechanical Turk).


All 165 tested sounds: