Lay Language Papers
156th ASA Meeting

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The following are lay language versions of meeting papers being presented at the 156th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, to be held November 10-14, 2008 in Miami, Florida. Please keep in mind that some of the research described in the laypapers may not have yet been peer reviewed.


MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10


"Where is the beat in the brain?" (1aMU3) by John Iversen and Aniruddh Patel


"Tempo fluctuation and predictive synchrony in music" (1aMU5) by Summer K. Rankin, Edward W. Large and Philip W. Fink


Music Kinetics (1pMU1) by Petri Toiviainen



TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11


The Speech-to-Song Illusion (2aMU6) by Diana Deutsch, Rachael Lapidis and Trevor Henthorn


Prey Capture by Harbor Porpoises: Getting Your Next Meal (2pAB1) by Lee A. Miller


Fish-Eating Killer Whales in the Pacific Northwest Just Love Chinook Salmon (2pAB2) by Whitlow W. L. Au, John K. Horne and Christopher D. Jones


'Gunshot' sound displays by right whales in the Bay of Fundy (2pAB11) by Susan E. Parks, Cara F. Hotchkin and Christopher W. Clark


Children's Voices: A new tool for measuring children's voices could improve diagnosis and treatment (2pSC18) by Eric Hunter


Identifying Whale Clicks (2pSP4) by George E. Ioup, Juliette W. Ioup, Lisa A. Pflug, Natalia A. Sidorovskaia, Charles H. Thompsonand Christopher O. Tiemann



WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12


A Forrest Gump Effect? Being 'There' for Surprises and Delights in Cetacean and Pinniped Neurobiology (3aAB4) by Sam Ridgway


Killer Whales at the Pribilof Islands: Who Are They and What Are They Doing? (3aAB10) by Kelly Newman, Alan Springer and Craig Matkin


Killer Whale Mother, Juvenile and Calf Vocalizations (3aAB11) by Dawn M. Grebner, David L. Bradley, Dean E. Capone, Susan E. Parks, Jennifer L. Miksis-Olds and John K. B. Ford


Musical Instruments' Sound Radiation Patterns (3aMU7) by Rolf Bader


Materials for acoustic cloaking (3aPA5) by Andrew Norris


Let's sonic boom a house - without an airplane (3aSAa4) by Victor W. Sparrow and Steven L. Garrett


Aural Architecture: The Missing Link (3pAA1) by Barry Blesser and Linda-Ruth Salter


Uncertainty in Ocean Acoustics (3pID2) by Steven Finette


The Archeology of Relic Sound Waves (3pID3) by J.R. Gladden



THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13


A LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) study of Philadelphia Schools - What is old is new again (4aAA4) by Felicia Doggett and Brian M. Zigmond


High Power Pocket-Size Ultrasound Device (4aEA8) by George K. Lewis Jr. and William L. Olbricht


A Vowel by the Same Name is Not Necessarily the Same: Kids Mimic Adult Vowels (4aSC5) by Hyunju Chung, Jan Edwards and Gary Weismer


Acoustical Optimization of Modern Architectural Spaces (4pAA6) by Peter D'Antonio and Trevor J. Cox


What Do Birds Listen to When They Hear Song? (4pAB10) by Beth Vernaleo and Robert Dooling


Tuning forks, resonators andbeats: Demonstrations for "Project Listen Up" (4pED3) by Murray S. Korman



FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14


Native speakers: are you able to detect a foreign accent from hearing one word? (5aSC4) by Hanyong Park, Kennth de Jong and Isabelle Darcy


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