Download the scrambled music and speech stimuli tested in Experiment II. The stimulus set includes 2-second excerpts of music and speech, along with scrambled versions of each. The scrambling is implemented via ‘quilting’: a method that removes higher-order temporal dependencies by re-ordering sound segments, without producing acoustic artifacts that would normally be produced by naive concatenation of non-adjacent sound segments (Overath et al., 2015). The stimulus set also includes MIDI music that has been scrambled in the domain of the score.

Example stimuli from the sound set:

Intact speech (German)

Quilted speech

Intact music

Quilted music

MIDI music

Score-scrambled MIDI