READ ME File For 'Sensory unpleasantness of very-high frequency sound and audible ultrasound' Dataset DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/D3167 Date that the file was created: July, 2024 ------------------- GENERAL INFORMATION ------------------- ReadMe Author: Ben Lineton, University of Southampton; ORCID ID 0000-0003-4784-7762 Date of data collection: 1 October 2018 to 20 December 2018 Information about geographic location of data collection: University of Southampton, UK Related projects: European Metrology Programme of Innovation and Research (EMPIR, Grant no. 15HLT03 EARII). The EMPIR programme was co-financed by the participating states and from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme. -------------------------- SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION -------------------------- Licenses/restrictions placed on the data, or limitations of reuse: CC-BY Recommended citation for the data: This dataset supports the publication: AUTHORS:Ben Lineton, Rahma Abdul Rahman Al Balushi, Sian Lloyd Jones, Timothy G. Leighton, and Mark D. Fletcher TITLE:Sensory unpleasantness of very-high frequency sound and audible ultrasound JOURNAL: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America PAPER DOI: 10.1121/10.0028380 Links to other publicly accessible locations of the data:N/A Links/relationships to ancillary or related data sets: N/A -------------------- DATA & FILE OVERVIEW -------------------- This dataset contains: File: DataAveragedOverReplicates_Deposited.xlsx Relationship between files, if important for context: N/A Additional related data collected that was not included in the current data package: N/A If data was derived from another source, list source: N/A If there are there multiple versions of the dataset, list the file updated, when and why update was made: N/A -------------------------- METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION -------------------------- For information on how the methods of data collection, instrumentaiton, calibration and data analysis, refer to the following publication. See the journal article: AUTHORS:Ben Lineton, Rahma Abdul Rahman Al Balushi, Sian Lloyd Jones, Timothy G. Leighton, and Mark D. Fletcher TITLE:Sensory unpleasantness of very-high frequency sound and audible ultrasound JOURNAL: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America PAPER DOI: 10.1121/10.0028380 -------------------------- DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION -------------------------- The Microsoft Excel file contains the following five Excel sheets: Sheet 1. Title Page: Decription of the project in which the data were collected Sheet 2. Hearing Threshold Levels Table of HTLs of the 18 participants expressed in dB SPL in the ear simulator. The table has 6 columns: Col 1: Subject ID Col 2. Hearing threshold level at 1 kHz Col 3. Hearing threshold level at 14 kHz Col 4. Hearing threshold level at 16 kHz Col 5. Hearing threshold level at 18 kHz Col 6. Group number indicators whether the participant was classified as Asymptomatic (Group 0) or Symptomatic (Group 1) As described in the publication. Sheet 3. SPLs for equal loudness levels. Six tables of SPLs measured in the ear simulator. The six tables give data for the two groups x 3 Sensation levels. The three sensation levels of 10, 20 and 30 dB SL refer to the levels of the reference 1-kHz tone that was presented. The SPLs in each table are those of the 14, 16, and 18-kHz tones judged to be equally loud as the 1-kHz reference tone. The SPL of the 1-kHz reference tone is also shown which is equal to the sensation level plus the measured hearing threshold. Each table has 5 columns: Col 1: Subject ID Col 2. SPL at 1 kHz Col 3. SPL at 14 kHz Col 4. SPL at 16 kHz Col 5. SPL at 18 kHz Sheet 4. Sensation Levels (dB SL) SLs corresponding to the equal loudness SPLs. Contains 6 new table, plus a repeat of the HTLs from Sheet 2. The six tables show the SLs of the tones corresponding to equal loudness levels. The six tables give data for the two groups x 3 Sensation levels. The three sensation levels of 10, 20 and 30 dB SL refer to the levels of the reference 1-kHz tone that was presented. The SLs in each table are those of the 14, 16, and 18-kHz tones judged to be equally loud as the 1-kHz reference tone, calculated by subtracting the HTL from the measured SPL in Sheet 3 The SL of the 1-kHz reference tone is also shown which was set to 10, 20 or 30 dB SL. Each table has 5 columns: Col 1: Subject ID Col 2. SL at 1 kHz Col 3. SL at 14 kHz Col 4. SL at 16 kHz Col 5. SL at 18 kHz Sheet 5. Annoyance Ratings Four tables: 2 groups (symptomatic/asymptomatic) x Two rating scales (numerical / verbal). Each table shows the mean rating over 4 replicate presentations of the tone. The numerical rating is from 0 to 10. The verbal rating is on a 5-point scale, coded 0 - 4. Each table comprises 3 sub-tables for the three 1-kHz reference sensation levels (10, 20 and 30 dB SL) Each subtable has 4 rows, with the columns indicating the participant number: Row 1. SL at 1 kHz Row 2. SL at 14 kHz Row 3. SL at 16 kHz Row 4. SL at 18 kHz