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Lay Language Papers
153rd ASA Meeting

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The following are lay language versions of meeting papers being presented at the 153rd meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, to be held June 4-8, 2007 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Please keep in mind that some of the research described in the laypapers may not have yet been peer reviewed.


MONDAY, JUNE 4


Workspace Speech Privacy Calculator by Jonathan D. Kemp, Mark Bell and Thomas Horrall


When the Ocean Breathes by Grant Deane and Dale Stokes


Early Stages of Audiovisual Speech Processing-A Magnetoencephalography Study by Ingo Hertrich and Hermann Ackermann


Learning from How Our Ear Processes Complex Sounds to Design an Acoustical Vehicle Classifier by Geok Lian Oh



TUESDAY, JUNE 5


What Did Dinosaurs Hear? by Robert Dooling, Otto Gleich, and Geoffrey A. Manley


3-D Motion in Stradivari and Guarneri dG Violins by George Bissinger and Danial Rowe


Sound Propagation through a Forest Edge: The Influence of Angle of Incidence by Michelle E. Swearingen, Michael J. White, Patrick Guertin, Jeffrey Mifflin, Timothy Onder, Donald G. Albert, Stephen Decato, and Arnold Tunick


Life's a Pitch -- MRI Used to Study How the Brain Processes Sound by Deborah A. Hall and Christopher J. Plack


The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900-1933 by Emily Thompson


Stalking a Volcano with Noise by Christoph Sens-Schnfelder and Ulrich Wegler



WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6


Nocturnal Activity by Transient Killer Whales at St. Paul Island, Alaska by Kelly Newman and Alan Springer


Vibro-acoustography: New Breast Imaging Modality Shows Lesions More Clearly by Azra Alizad, Mostafa Fatemi, Dana H. Whaley and James F. Greenleaf


Snap, Crackle, Pop: The Sound of Freedom? by Kent L. Gee, Victor W. Sparrow, Anthony A. Atchley, and Thomas B. Gabrielson


Is a Neolithic Burial Chamber Different from My Bathroom, Acoustically Speaking? by Matthew Wright


Rehabilitating the World's Worst Sounds: Time-frequency Reassignment in Sound Modeling and Morphing by Kelly Fitz


Acoustic Instruments in Planetary Exploration: The Past, Present, and Future by Martin Towner


Alien Soundscapes: Acoustics on Titan, Venus, Mars, and Earth by Andi Petculescu


The Sounds of Titan by Amanda D. Hanford, Lyle N. Long, and Victor W. Sparrow


Seeing Music: Do We Hear Silent Gestures? by Michael Schutz and Michael Kubovy


Teenagers Develop a Better Sense of Timing During Adolescence by Julia Jones Huyck and Beverly A. Wright


THURSDAY, JUNE 7

Identifying Disguised Voices through Speakers' Vocal Pitches and Formants by Jean Andruski, Nikki Brugnone, and Aaron Meyers

FRIDAY, JUNE 8


How Much Do Teachers Talk? Do They Ever Get a Break? by Ingo R. Titze, Eric J. Hunter, and Jan G. vec


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