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Volume 154,

Issue 3,

September 2023

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The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America is the leading source of theoretical and experimental research results in the broad interdisciplinary subject of sound. The journal serves physical scientists, life scientists, engineers, psychologists, physiologists, architects, musicians, and speech communication specialists.

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James F. Lynch

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January 13 2023

Monitoring cavitation dynamics evolution in tissue mimicking hydrogels for repeated exposures via acoustic cavitation emissions

Scott C. Haskell, Ning Lu et al.

A 700 kHz histotripsy array is used to generate repeated cavitation events in agarose, gelatin, and polyacrylamide hydrogels. High-speed optical imaging, a broadband hydrophone, and the narrow-band ...

February 02 2023

Timbral cues for learning to generalize musical instrument identity across pitch register

Stephen McAdams, Etienne Thoret et el.

Timbre provides an important cue to identify musical instruments. Many timbral attributes covary with other parameters like pitch. This study explores listeners' ability to construct categories ...

November 01 2022

A perception-based study of the indoor and outdoor acoustic environments in India during the COVID-19 pandemic

A. Mimani, S. Nama

This work presents the results of a perception-based study of changes in the local soundscape at residences across India during the last 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic and their effects on ...

May 02 2023

Why is the perceptual octave stretched? An account based on mismatched time constants within the auditory brainstem

Alain de Cheveigné

This paper suggests an explanation for listeners' greater tolerance to positive than negative mistuning of the higher tone within an octave pair. It hypothesizes a neural circuit tuned to ...

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September 27 2023

Directional characteristics of two gamelan gongs

Samuel D. Bellows, Dallin T. Harwood et al.

The distinctive geometry and structural characteristics of Balinese gamelan gongs lead to the instrument's unique sound and musical style. This work presents high-resolution directivity measurements ...

September 26 2023

The influences of forward context on stop-consonant perception: The combined effects of contrast and acoustic cue activation?

Wenli Liu, Tianyu Wang et al.

The perception of the /da/–/ga/ series, distinguished primarily by the third formant (F3) transition, is affected by many nonspeech and speech sounds. Previous studies mainly investigated the ...

September 26 2023

A safe power controlling method for a phase-shift migration inverter to drive a high-power ultrasonic transducer

Tae-Sok Jang, Yong-Nam An et al.

The aim of this work is to investigate and analyze the operation mechanism and power control principle of a bolted Langevin type (BLT)-loaded phase-shifted control inverter and to find a safe power ...

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