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Volume 154,

Issue 2,

August 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 15 2023

Auditory masking in odobenid and otariid carnivores

Ryan A. Jones, Jillian M. Sills et al.

As the only living species within the odobenid lineage of carnivores, walruses (Odobenus rosmarus) have no close relatives from which auditory information can be extrapolated. Sea lions and fur seals ...

September 15 2023

Lumped element models of sound conduction in the human ear: A systematic review

Irina Wils, Alexander Geerardyn et al.

Lumped element models facilitate investigating the fundamental mechanisms of human ear sound conduction. This systematic review aims to guide researchers to the optimal model for the investigated ...

September 15 2023

Ambient noise levels with depth from an underwater glider survey across shipping lanes in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada

Romina A. S. Gehrmann, David R. Barclay et al.

A two-month-long glider deployment in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada, measured the ambient sound level variability with depth and lateral position across a narrow channel that serves as an active ...

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