164th Acoustical Society of America Meeting
The following are lay language versions of meeting papers being presented at the 164th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of American to be held October 22-26, 2012, in Kansas City, Missouri. Please keep in mind that some of the research described in the lay papers may not have yet been peer reviewed.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 22
Absolute Pitch is Associated with a Large Auditory Digit Span: A Clue to its Genesis (1aMU5) by Diana Deutsch and Kevin Dooley
Perception of Musical and Lexical Tones by Musicians and Nonmusicians (1aMU6) by Chao-Yang Lee and Allison Lekich
Noise Exposure Profiles for Small-caliber Firearms from 1.5 to 6 meters
(1pNS11) by William J. Murphy, Gregory A. Flamme, Edward L. Zechmann, Caroline Dektas, Deanna K. Meinke, Michael Stewart, James Lankford, Donald S. Finan and Seleen Collins
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23
The Sound-absorbing City -- New Ideas for Living Environments around Airports (2aNS4) by Juergen Bauer
Relevance and Applicability of the Soundscape Concept to Physiological or Behavioral Effects Caused by Noise at Very Low Frequencies which May Not Be Audible (2aNS6) by Wade Bray
Plumbing the Depths of Ligeia: Considerations for Acoustic Depth Sounding in Titan’s Hydrocarbon Seas (2aPA5) by Juan Arvelo and Ralph Lorenz
Monitoring of Corrosion in Pipelines Using Guided Waves and Permanently Installed Transducers (2aSAb1) by Michael J. Lowe, Andrea Galvagni and Peter Cawley
Training Adult Learners of English to Hear the Sounds of English (2aSC3) by James D. Miller, Charles S. Watson and Gary R. Kidd
Jurassic Acoustics: Low Frequency Sound Absorption in the Ocean During Past Ages (2aUW14) by David G. Browning and Peter M. Scheifele
A Sonar Experiment to Study Sound Propagation through Flames (2pPA14) by Mustafa Z. Abbasi, Peter S. Wilson, Ofodike A. Ezekoye and Joelle I. Suits
Acoustic Echolocation for Mobile Robots with Parametric Arrays (2pSPa5) by Eric A. Dieckman and Mark Hinders
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24
Is the Ocean Really Getting Louder? (3aAB7) by M.S. Stocker and J.T. Reuterdahl
Physics of the Blues -- Scales, Harmony, and the Origin of Blues Piano Styles (3aMU1) by J. Murray Gibson
Thermoacoustic Device for Nuclear Fuel Monitoring and Heat Transfer Enhancement (3aPA2) by Randall A. Ali, Steven L. Garrett, James A. Smith and Dale K. Kotter
What Makes Some Musical Patterns More Pleasing Than Others?
Uncovering the Psychological Nature of Musical Appeal (3aPP8) by Ronaldo Vigo
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25
Making Hospitals Quiet: Addressing the Ongoing Noise Problem in U.S. Hospitals (4aAAb3) by Gary Madaras
When the Beat Goes Off (4aMUa1) by Holger Hennig, Ragnar Fleischmann and Theo Geisel
Human Body Rhythms Motion Analogy in Music Sound (4aMUa2) by Alexander Ekimov
The Evolution of Musical Instruments (4pMU10) by Neville Fletcher
Ground Squirrels Have Voices that Are Similar to Those of Their Relatives (4pABb2) by Stacie Hooper, Brenda McCowan, Toni Lyn Morelli and Christina Kastely
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