ASA Press Releases
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Press Releases
Newsworthy stories from past and present press conferences and publications.
During COVID-19 Lockdown, Emotional Wellbeing Declined for Adults with Vision, Hearing Loss
Older individuals with sensory impairment suffered from lack of social interactions during pandemic
Build Your Own Office Podcast Studio
How to convert existing office spaces into professional-sounding recording studios
Adding Sound to Electric Vehicles Improves Pedestrian Safety
Study participants noticed cars before the minimum safe detection distance in most cases
Stuttering Starts at Speech Initiation, Not Due to Impaired Motor Skills
Theory suggests anomalies in the brain’s initiation circuit cause stuttering
Echolocation Builds Prediction Models of Prey Movement
Bats use echoes of own vocalizations to anticipate location, trajectory of prey
Filtering Microplastics Trash from Water with Acoustic Waves
Prototype speaker system efficiently separates out microplastics from polluted water
Blood Bubbles Reveal Oxygen Levels
Acoustic tools detect vibrating microbubbles, act as oxygen sensors
Can We Perceive Gender from Children’s Voices?
The perception of gender in children’s voices is of special interest to researchers, because voices of young boys and girls are very similar before the age of puberty.
To Better Understand Speech, Focus on Who Is Talking
Seeing a person’s face as we are talking to them greatly improves our ability to understand their speech