ASA Lay Language Papers

164th Acoustical Society of America Meeting


The following are lay language versions of meeting papers being presented at the 164th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of American to be held October 22-26, 2012, in Kansas City, Missouri. Please keep in mind that some of the research described in the lay papers may not have yet been peer reviewed.


MONDAY, OCTOBER 22


Absolute Pitch is Associated with a Large Auditory Digit Span: A Clue to its Genesis (1aMU5) by Diana Deutsch and Kevin Dooley


Perception of Musical and Lexical Tones by Musicians and Nonmusicians (1aMU6) by Chao-Yang Lee and Allison Lekich


Noise Exposure Profiles for Small-caliber Firearms from 1.5 to 6 meters (1pNS11) by William J. Murphy, Gregory A. Flamme, Edward L. Zechmann, Caroline Dektas, Deanna K. Meinke, Michael Stewart, James Lankford, Donald S. Finan and Seleen Collins




TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23


The Sound-absorbing City -- New Ideas for Living Environments around Airports (2aNS4) by Juergen Bauer


Relevance and Applicability of the Soundscape Concept to Physiological or Behavioral Effects Caused by Noise at Very Low Frequencies which May Not Be Audible (2aNS6) by Wade Bray


Plumbing the Depths of Ligeia: Considerations for Acoustic Depth Sounding in Titan’s Hydrocarbon Seas (2aPA5) by Juan Arvelo and Ralph Lorenz


Monitoring of Corrosion in Pipelines Using Guided Waves and Permanently Installed Transducers (2aSAb1) by Michael J. Lowe, Andrea Galvagni and Peter Cawley


Training Adult Learners of English to Hear the Sounds of English (2aSC3) by James D. Miller, Charles S. Watson and Gary R. Kidd


Jurassic Acoustics: Low Frequency Sound Absorption in the Ocean During Past Ages (2aUW14) by David G. Browning and Peter M. Scheifele


A Sonar Experiment to Study Sound Propagation through Flames (2pPA14) by Mustafa Z. Abbasi, Peter S. Wilson, Ofodike A. Ezekoye and Joelle I. Suits


Acoustic Echolocation for Mobile Robots with Parametric Arrays (2pSPa5) by Eric A. Dieckman and Mark Hinders





WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24


Is the Ocean Really Getting Louder? (3aAB7) by M.S. Stocker and J.T. Reuterdahl


Physics of the Blues -- Scales, Harmony, and the Origin of Blues Piano Styles (3aMU1) by J. Murray Gibson


Thermoacoustic Device for Nuclear Fuel Monitoring and Heat Transfer Enhancement (3aPA2) by Randall A. Ali, Steven L. Garrett, James A. Smith and Dale K. Kotter


What Makes Some Musical Patterns More Pleasing Than Others? Uncovering the Psychological Nature of Musical Appeal (3aPP8) by Ronaldo Vigo




THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25


Making Hospitals Quiet: Addressing the Ongoing Noise Problem in U.S. Hospitals (4aAAb3) by Gary Madaras


When the Beat Goes Off (4aMUa1) by Holger Hennig, Ragnar Fleischmann and Theo Geisel


Human Body Rhythms Motion Analogy in Music Sound (4aMUa2) by Alexander Ekimov


The Evolution of Musical Instruments (4pMU10) by Neville Fletcher


Ground Squirrels Have Voices that Are Similar to Those of Their Relatives (4pABb2) by Stacie Hooper, Brenda McCowan, Toni Lyn Morelli and Christina Kastely





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