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Volume 154,

Issue 5,

November 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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December 01 2023

Experimental pseudo-equivalent deterministic excitation method extension for low frequency domain applications

Giulia Mazzeo, Giuseppe Petrone et al.

In transport engineering applications, flow-induced vibrations is an interesting topic to address since it may negatively affect the operation and the response of the system. Wind tunnel facilities ...

December 01 2023

The first days of diagnostic ultrasound

T. Douglas Mast

The Reflections series takes a look back on historical articles from The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America that have had a significant impact on the science and practice of acoustics.

December 01 2023

Dynamic changes of vocal tract dimensions with sound pressure level during messa di voce

Fabian Burk, Louisa Traser et al.

The messa di voce (MdV), which consists of a continuous crescendo and subsequent decrescendo on one pitch is one of the more difficult exercises of the technical repertoire of Western classical ...

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