PLOS One
Normative emotional responses to environmental sounds in middle-aged to older adults with normal hearing: Stimuli from the Marcell database
Purpose This study aimed to provide normative affective ratings for middle-aged to older adults with normal hearing using the Marcell database. The database includes 120 diverse environmental sounds representing various real-world acoustic events, such as those produced by animals, humans, musical instruments, tools, signals, and liquids. Secondary aims were to examine the relationship between valence and arousal, and whether factors such as age, gender, hearing-related lifestyle, hearing demands, and self-reported …