About the Authors

Steven R. Livingstone

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

steven.livingstone@uwrf.edu

Affiliations Department of Psychology, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada, Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, University of Wisconsin-River Falls, Wisconsin, WI, United States of America

Frank A. Russo

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Psychology, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada

Competing Interests

The second author holds a research chair sponsored by a commercial source: SONOVA/Phonak. Research funding related to the chair partly supported the development of the database presented in this paper. The agreement with the commercial sponsor does not entail restrictions on sharing of data and/or materials, and does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. In addition, neither of the authors are or have been on the editorial board of PLOS ONE, nor acted as an expert witness in relevant legal proceedings, nor sat or currently sit on a committee for an organization that may benefit from publication of the paper. Both authors declare, that to the best of their knowledge, there are no other competing interests.