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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jan 30.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Psychol. 2010 Winter;123(4):391–411. doi: 10.5406/amerjpsyc.123.4.0391

Table 2.

The absolute frequency with which a particular auditory icon was associated with a given situation and the median value of the match (1= weak match, 5=strong match). Empty cells represent cases where no response occurred, light grey cells correspond to specific warnings and dark grey cells correspond to more general warnings. Distracter sounds are excluded.

Situation (Y)
Warning (X) Bike Crosswalk Bus Construction Lead vehicle braking highway Lead vehicle braking city Merge Curve Traffic light Stop sign Speed sign Oncoming car Row sum (X)

Bike bell 1 8 (4) 1 (5) 1 (5) 1 (3) 1 (5) 4 (5) 16
Bike bell 2 3 (2) 0.5 (2.5) 1 (2) 1 (1) 6
Footsteps 1 4 (3.5) 9 (3) 7 (3) 3 (3) 1 (4) 2 (2.5) 26
Footsteps 2 3 (3) 4 (3) 2 (2) 1 (5) 1 (4) 11
Jackhammer 1 (2) 2 (3) 9 (3) 1 (1) 2 (2) 1 (4) 1 (1) 1 (2) 18
Screeching tires 1 (1) 5 (2) 4 (3.5) 4 (3.5) 2 (2.5) 2 (3.5) 2 (3.5) 6 (3) 5 (3) 2 (3) 3 (4) 36
Crash 2 (2) 2 (3) 2 (2.5) 1 (3) 1 (3) 2 (3) 2 (2.5) 12
Siren 3 (4) 2 (5) 4 (4.5) 3 (4) 3 (4) 4 (3) 2 (4.5) 4 (3) 6 (4) 4 (4.5) 3 (4) 3 (4) 41
Car horn 6 (3) 4 (3) 3 (4) 2 (3) 3 (3) 4 (2) 1 (1) 1 (1) 2 (4.5) 1 (2) 7 (4) 34

Column sum (Y) 31 27 23 20 10 15 3 10 18 13 10 20