The June cover of JASA is now available! Check it out:

The cover image was selected to represent “Evidence for proactive and retroactive temporal pattern analysis in simultaneous masking,” by Bernhard Laback, Hisaaki Tabuchi, and Armin Kohlrausch. JASA Coordinating Editor for Psychological and Physiological Acoustics Emily Buss says, “[This article] describes basic psychoacoustic research into the way listeners use the temporal regularity of background sounds to maximize signal detection. Results speak to the basic mechanisms that listeners use to organize sound into an auditory scene.”

Some other research was also highlighted on the June JASA cover:

• From Acoustical Oceanography, “Reflected acoustic energy from geological layers during seismic reflection surveys,” by Alexander S. Douglass, Shima Abadi, Benjamin J. Phrampus, and Warren T. Wood
• From Architectural Acoustics, “Free-field method for inverse characterization of finite porous acoustic materials using feed forward neural networks,” by Mark Müller-Giebeler, Marco Berzborn, and Michael Vorländer
• From Physical Acoustics, “Propagation of elastic waves in correlated dispersions of resonant scatterers,” by Alverède Simon, Quentin Baudis, Régis Wunenburger, and Tony Valier-Brasier
• From Speech Communication, “Advanced accent/dialect identification and accentedness assessment with multi-embedding models and automatic speech recognition,” by Shahram Ghorbani and John H. L. Hansen

All the articles from the cover are free to read for a month after the cover is released, so be sure to check them out! You can find the whole issue at https://pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/issue/155/6.

The May cover of JASA is now available! Check it out:

The cover image overlays a mode of a soundboard calculated using finite element modelling onto an image of a piano. The figure comes from “Influence of soundboard modelling approaches on piano string vibration,” by Pablo Miranda Valiente, Giacomo Squicciarini, and David J. Thompson. JASA Coordinating Editor for Musical Acoustics Andrew Morrison says,“This article compares four different approaches to modeling a piano soundboard which is coupled to vibrating strings. The authors explore how complex a soundboard model needs to be to effectively characterize the main features of the string-soundboard interaction.”

Some other research was also highlighted on the May JASA cover:

• From Acoustical Oceanography, “Theoretical and numerical study on transient acoustic wave propagation across ice layers in the Arctic Ocean,” by Qitian Zeng, Shengxing Liu, Liguo Tang, and Zhenglin Li
• From Biomedical Acoustics, “Flexural pulse wave velocity in blood vessels,” by Sibylle Gregoire, Gabrielle Laloy-Borgna, Johannes Aichele, Fabrice Lemoult, and Stefan Catheline
• From Physical Acoustics, “Enabling resonant ultrasound spectroscopy in high magnetic fields,” by Christopher A. Mizzi and Boris Maiorov.
• From Signal Processing in Acoustics, “Real-time nearfield acoustic holography using particle velocity,” by Wen-Yuan Wu, Xiao-Zheng Zhang, Yong-Bin Zhang, and Chuan-Xing Bi

All the articles from the cover are free to read for a month after the cover is released, so be sure to check them out! You can find the whole issue at https://pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/issue/155/5.