Revealing the stimulus-driven component of attention through modulations of auditory salience by timbre attributes

Method

Transparency and openness

We report how we determined our sample size, all data exclusions, all manipulations and all measures in the study. Data were collected in 2021 and 2022 and analyzed using python 3.7. All statistical analyses were performed using python 3.7 and the open-source pingouin package.

Participants

A previous pilot experiment involving 11 participants was conducted to calculate the power of the effect of the singleton presence on response time. The calculus was made for a one-tailed t-test, with an effect size of d = 0.8, α = 0.05 and aiming for a power of 0.8,…