Lay Language Papers
154th ASA Meeting

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The following are lay language versions of meeting papers being presented at the 154th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, to be held November 27 - December 1, 2007 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Please keep in mind that some of the research described in the laypapers may not have yet been peer reviewed.


TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27


Digitally Enhanced Practice (1pAA2) by Ron Freiheit


Infrasound measurements during Hurricane Katrina (1pPA3) by Ronald A. Wagstaf, Carrick Talmage and Heath Rice



WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28


Multitasking Microbubbles (2aBB3 & 4pBB3) by Vesna Zderic and Shahram Vaezy


What is attention, and what is it doing in speech perception? (2aSCa1) by Alexander L. Francis


Influence of roughness on coherence of signals reflected by the seafloor (2aUWa4) by Laurent Guillon and Charles W. Holland


Lizard ears and ancestral hearing (2pAB1) by Catherine Carr, Yezhong Tang, and Jakob Christensen-Dalsgaard


Sound Localization by Echolocating Dolphins (2pAB3) by Brian K. Branstetter and Eduardo Mercado III


Sound localization by echolocating bats: Are auditory signals enough? (2pAB4) by Murat Aytekin, Jonathan Z. Simon and Cynthia F. Moss


Just a smidgen to the right: Improving sound-localization ability with practice (2pAB6) by Beverly A. Wright


Whales Learn Songs to Explore Their Surroundings (2pAB10) by Eduardo Mercado III


Instrumentation for infrasonic wind noise studies (2pEA3) by Richard Raspet, Jeremy Webster and Jiao Yu


Inequities in Physics Access for Students in Urban Secondary Schools (2pED3) by Angela M. Kelly



THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29


Acoustic environments of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in the Big Bend region of Florida (3aAB3) by Athena M. Rycyk and Douglas Pl. Nowacek


SSSSH! We're Tracking Whales! (3aAB7) by Val Schmidt, Tom Weber, Dave Wiley, Mark Johnson, Erik Dawe, Colin Ware and Roland Arsenault


NEW How squishy are jellyfish ? (3aAB11) by Joy N. Smith


Acoustic chemotherapy delivery for brain cancer (3aBB5) by George Lewis, Jr., William Olbricht and George Lewis, Sr.


Modulated Ultrasound and Multifrequency Radiation Force (3pBB1) by Matthew W. Urban, Mostafa Fatemi, and James F. Greenleaf


A New Look at Thyroid (3pBB3) by Azra Alizad, F. G. Mitri, R. R. Kinnick, J. F. Greenleaf, and M. Fatemi


Toward a less chaotic sound environment for nurses: A study investigating the relationship between layout design, aural connectivity and user activities (3aNS7) by Selen Okcu and Craig Zimring



FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30


Inverse Sound Rendering: capturing the acoustic properties of realistic interiors into a virtual model (4aAA1) by Gabriel Pablo Nava, Yoichi Sato, Sinichi Sakamoto and Yosuke Yasuda


Acoustical Renovation of Music Rooms in Schools to Improve Teaching and Listening Conditions (4aAA2) by Hyun Paek and Gary W. Siebein


Perception and Performance of Hearing-Impaired versus Normal-Hearing Persons under Noise (4aAA3) by Lauren M. Ronsse and Lily M. Wang


An Exploration of Virtual 3D Sound (4aAA7) by Scott McDermott and Cheehung Henry Chu


Sound Focused Personal Audio System (4aEA4) by Chan-Hui Lee, Jin Young Park, Ji-Ho Chang and Yang-Hann Kim


Making Spatial Music Accessible: Investigating elementary spatial movements (4aMU2) by Georgios Marentakis, Nils Peters and Stephen McAdams


A Modern Take on the Ancient Mridangam (4aMU12) by Rohan Krishnamurthy, Ian K. Hempe and James P. Cottingham


Response of Gopher Tortoises to Military Training Operations: Preliminary Data (4aNS5) by David Delaney, Tom Radzio, Joseph Hackler, Andrew Walde, and Matt Hinderliter


How Human Sound Affects Marine Animals (4aNS8) by Kathleen J. Vigness Raposa, Adam S. Frankel, Geoff Sisson, William T. Ellison and Christopher Damon


Time Reversed Sound detects land mines (4aPA6) by Laurent Fillinger, Brad Libbey, Alexander Sutin and Armen Sarvazyan


Somatosensory Adaptation in Deaf Adults (4aSC7) by Sazzad Nasir and David J. Ostry


Directivity pattern of footstep sound at ultrasonic frequencies (4aPA9) by Alexander Ekimov and James M. Sabatier


Internet Acoustics and "Plucking the Internet" (4pMU5) by Chris Chafe


A Floating Opera House for Toronto (4pSA2) by Steven L. Wolfe


Stretching the facial skin modifies the perception of speech sounds (4pSC3) by Takayuki Ito, Mark Tiede and David J. Ostry


Seismic Refraction Tomography of a Small Earth Dam (4pUW6) by Roger Gauss and John Preston


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