Lay Language Papers
156th ASA Meeting
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The following are lay language versions of meeting papers being presented at the 156th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, to be held November 10-14, 2008 in Miami, Florida. Please keep in mind that some of the research described in the laypapers may not have yet been peer reviewed.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10
"Where is the beat in the brain?" (1aMU3) by John Iversen and Aniruddh Patel
"Tempo fluctuation and predictive synchrony in music" (1aMU5) by Summer K. Rankin, Edward W. Large and Philip W. Fink
Music Kinetics (1pMU1) by Petri Toiviainen
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11
The Speech-to-Song Illusion (2aMU6) by Diana Deutsch, Rachael Lapidis and Trevor Henthorn
Prey Capture by Harbor Porpoises: Getting Your Next Meal (2pAB1) by Lee A. Miller
Fish-Eating Killer Whales in the Pacific Northwest Just Love Chinook Salmon (2pAB2) by Whitlow W. L. Au, John K. Horne and Christopher D. Jones
'Gunshot' sound displays by right whales in the Bay of Fundy (2pAB11) by Susan E. Parks, Cara F. Hotchkin and Christopher W. Clark
Children's Voices: A new tool for measuring children's voices could improve diagnosis and treatment (2pSC18) by Eric Hunter
Identifying Whale Clicks (2pSP4) by George E. Ioup, Juliette W. Ioup, Lisa A. Pflug, Natalia A. Sidorovskaia, Charles H. Thompsonand Christopher O. Tiemann
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12
A Forrest Gump Effect? Being 'There' for Surprises and Delights in Cetacean and Pinniped Neurobiology (3aAB4) by Sam Ridgway
Killer Whales at the Pribilof Islands: Who Are They and What Are They Doing? (3aAB10) by Kelly Newman, Alan Springer and Craig Matkin
Killer Whale Mother, Juvenile and Calf Vocalizations (3aAB11) by Dawn M. Grebner, David L. Bradley, Dean E. Capone, Susan E. Parks, Jennifer L. Miksis-Olds and John K. B. Ford
Musical Instruments' Sound Radiation Patterns (3aMU7) by Rolf Bader
Materials for acoustic cloaking (3aPA5) by Andrew Norris
Let's sonic boom a house - without an airplane (3aSAa4) by Victor W. Sparrow and Steven L. Garrett
Aural Architecture: The Missing Link (3pAA1) by Barry Blesser and Linda-Ruth Salter
Uncertainty in Ocean Acoustics (3pID2) by Steven Finette
The Archeology of Relic Sound Waves (3pID3) by J.R. Gladden
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13
A LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) study of Philadelphia Schools - What is old is new again (4aAA4) by Felicia Doggett and Brian M. Zigmond
High Power Pocket-Size Ultrasound Device (4aEA8) by George K. Lewis Jr. and William L. Olbricht
A Vowel by the Same Name is Not Necessarily the Same: Kids Mimic Adult Vowels (4aSC5) by Hyunju Chung, Jan Edwards and Gary Weismer
Acoustical Optimization of Modern Architectural Spaces (4pAA6) by Peter D'Antonio and Trevor J. Cox
What Do Birds Listen to When They Hear Song? (4pAB10) by Beth Vernaleo and Robert Dooling
Tuning forks, resonators andbeats: Demonstrations for "Project Listen Up" (4pED3) by Murray S. Korman
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14
Native speakers: are you able to detect a foreign accent from hearing one word? (5aSC4) by Hanyong Park, Kennth de Jong and Isabelle Darcy
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