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January 13 2023
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
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. 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
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 29 2023
Irene Lorenzini, Pierre Labendzki et al.
The amplitude modulation following response (AMFR) is the steady-state auditory response signaling phase-locking to slow variations in the amplitude (AM) of auditory stimuli that provide fundamental ...
September 28 2023
Farhad Farzbod, Casey M. Holycross
Resonance ultrasound spectroscopy is a non-destructive technique used to assess materials' elastic and anelastic properties. It involves measuring the frequencies of free vibrations in a carefully ...
September 28 2023
Christine H. Shadle, Wei-Rong Chen et al.
Fricatives have noise sources that are filtered by the vocal tract and that typically possess energy over a much broader range of frequencies than observed for vowels and sonorant consonants. This ...

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