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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Aug 7.
Published in final edited form as: J Exp Psychol Gen. 2011 Sep 19;141(1):170–186. doi: 10.1037/a0024904

Table A1. Stimuli Used in Experiments 1 and 3.

Verbal label Percentage producing target
label in response to the
nonverbal cue
Imagery concordancea
Label cues Sound cues
n 17 13 13
Car (automobile) 94 3.4 3.8
Cat 100 3.6 4.2
Cow 100 3.9 4.4
Dog 100 3.6 4.5
Frog 100 4.1 4.2
Gun 59 4.4 2.3
Motorcycleb 65 3.2 3.8
Rooster 94 3.5 4.3
Train (locomotive) 88 3.2 4.2
Whistle 88 3.3 4.3

Note. All sounds can be downloaded from http://sapir.psych.wisc.edu/stimuli/labelsSoundsExpl.zip

a

Participants answered the question “How well did the picture match the image you thought of?” using a 5-point Likert scale (1 = did not match at all; 5 = matched perfectly).

b

The motorcycle item was omitted from Experiments 3A-3B.