Infants can distinguish caregivers’ and other familiar voices early in life, and can even tell the difference between two unfamiliar female voices. In this episode, we talk to Madeleine Yu (University of Toronto) about her research into infants’ ability to distinguish the voices of unfamiliar male speakers.
Like the episode? Check out the related article!
The December JASA Express Letters cover features depictions of non-reciprocal Willis monatomic lattices. The cover images were created by the author of “Brillouin-zone definition in non-reciprocal Willis monatomic lattices,” Hasan B. Al Ba’ba’a. This article is also part of the Joint Special Issue on Wave Phenomena in Periodic, Near-Periodic, and Locally Resonant Systems.
This month’s issue also included a couple of Editor’s Pick you don’t want to miss:
Browse the rest of the issue at https://pubs.aip.org/asa/jel/issue/3/12.
If you’ve been reading the last couple Propagations posts, you know the ASA Publications Office likes to do end of year reviews looking at what content the acoustics community enjoyed. We’ve shared our most popular Across Acoustics podcast episodes as well as the most downloaded ASA publications. Now we’re going to share some of the most liked publications content across our social media accounts. Even though we share the same content on all our social media accounts, some posts get more likes on specific platforms. Check out which posts users on different platforms like the most.
This Technical Area Pick for Signal Processing was the most liked JASA content posted across our social platforms, specifically on Facebook and X. Check it out to read the authors’ proposed a solution for the challenge of separating overlapping calls and environmental noise in the passive acoustic monitoring of complex soundscapes.
Irina Tolkova, Holger Klinck; Source separation with an acoustic vector sensor for terrestrial bioacoustics. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 1 August 2022; 152 (2): 1123. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0013505
In JASA Express Letters, this Editors Pick about the potential of distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) for low-frequency acoustic monitoring was the most liked JASA EL content posted across our platforms. In particular users on LinkedIn and X liked it. Be sure to give it a read!
William S. D. Wilcock, Shima Abadi, Bradley P. Lipovsky; Distributed acoustic sensing recordings of low-frequency whale calls and ship noise offshore Central Oregon. JASA Express Lett. 1 February 2023; 3 (2): 026002. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0017104
Samuel David Bellows, Dallin T. Harwood, Kent L. Gee, Timothy W. Leishman; Low-frequency directional characteristics of a gamelan gong. Proc. Mtgs. Acoust. 5 December 2022; 50 (1): 035003. https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0001722
This paper was the most liked POMA content posted across our platforms, notably Facebook and Instagram.
Were any of these popular posts surprising to you? What publications would you like us to post in the coming year? We’d love to hear your thoughts!
One of our favorite things to do in the Publications Office at the end of the year is to look back and see which articles ended up getting read the most over the course of the year. In that time, we publish hundreds of articles across our three journals, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA), JASA Express Letters, and The Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics (POMA). Publications span topics from all fourteen technical committees in the Acoustical Society of America, so it’s always a bit of a surprise to see which of the many diverse topics our journals cover end up piquing readers’ interest the most.
Today, we’d like to share the most downloaded articles with you, so you can see the research that’s currently making an impact in the field of acoustics. Here are the three most downloaded articles from each journal in 2023:
From the Special Issue on Reconsidering Classic Ideas in Speech Communication, this article points out the strengths and limitations of using intelligibility measures as metrics for speech perception.
This editorial introduces the special issue of the same name. (For an even more in-depth overview of the issue, check out this conversation we had with the editors on Across Acoustics!)
The third most-downloaded article from JASA this year is another Special Issue article, this time from the Special Issue on Fish Bioacoustics: Hearing and Sound Communication. This paper proposes an automated method for separating fish chorus from the environment, which could potentially help with research that will aid in the protection of vulnerable fish species.
The most downloaded JASA Express Letters article for the year received quite a bit of attention for research into the noise of NASA’s Space Launch System, including a press release and an episode of Across Acoustics!
This Editor’s Pick analyzed the use of distributed acoustic sensing for monitoring the ocean.
This research exploring a central aspect to music mixing was featured in a press release and an episode of our podcast.
This article based on a presentation from the 184th ASA meeting in Chicago identified character defining acoustical differences between two historic churches.
This article from the 183rd ASA Meeting in Nashville discusses methods for measuring hearing aid microphones’ sensitivity to intrinsic vibration, which can cause feedback that is difficult to resolve.
This research presented at the Fourth Vienna Talk on Music Acoustics explored ways to produce deep-bass tones in pipe organs when you don’t have a space the size of a cathedral to house said organ.
We hope you enjoy these articles as much as we did! Thank you to our authors for a sharing their research with us this year, and thank you to our readers for turning to our publications to find the latest in theoretical and experimental research results in the broad interdisciplinary subject of sound.
The November JASA Express Letters cover features a depiction of four autonomous stations used for taking acoustical measurements of the SLS Artemis-I mission. The image comes from the article, “Sound power of NASA’s lunar rockets: Space Launch System versus Saturn V,” by Makayle S. Kellison and Kent L. Gee.
This month’s issue also included an Editor’s Pick you don’t want to miss: “Tidal modulation of very-low-frequency and ultra-low-frequency ambient noise levels,” by Anthony I. Eller, Kevin D. Heaney, and David L. Bradley.
Browse the rest of the issue at https://pubs.aip.org/asa/jel/issue/3/11.
