The sound sensitivity of dolphins falls off near the bottom of the human acoustic spectrum (40 50 hertz), but this is the beginning of the range used by the large baleen whales.
In just under an hour, and through the prism of ecoacoustics, Krause will summarize the current state of sound from its inception, during the first four billion years of the Earth's formation, through the evolution of biological sound and its profound late-phase impact on culture, to the special human acoustic contributions that have a direct bearing on the planet's wildlife.
The field overlaps with the much larger and established field of environmental noise management, and also intersects, to various degrees, with other areas of acoustics such as sound quality, human acoustic comfort in buildings, and music and also with non-acoustic fields such as wilderness and recreation management, urban and housing design, and landscape planning and management.
Effects of unexpected changes in visual scenes on the human acoustic startle response and prepulse inhibition.
Harper and McAlpine took into account the statistics of the human acoustic cue to predict the optimal relationship between best IPD and frequency in humans.
For example, in humans, acoustic measurements reveal a relationship only between adult-male height and formant spacing [17, 22], whereas others find a significant correlation only between female height and formant spacing [23, 39].
Participants in this study were trained to categorize a 7-token continuum of unfamiliar nonphonemic sounds with speech-like (i.e., human voice) acoustic properties into two discrete categories (A and B).
Thus this study indicates that, unlike geographic variation in patterns of human speech, acoustic divergence in the structure of the African green monkey bark is likely the result of phylogenetic distance rather than learning processes.
Bahnson, TD, Eyerly, SA, Hollender, PJ, Doherty, JR, Kim, Y-J, Trahey, GE, and Wolf, PD. "Feasibility of near real-time lesion assessment during radiofrequency catheter ablation in humans using acoustic radiation force impulse imaging". Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology 25, no. 12 (December 2014): 1275-1283.
To ensure that the sound quality is as enjoyable as the picture quality, Toshiba has also included new Dolby Volume sound leveling, and Audyssey EQ. Toshiba is the first TV company to incorporate new Dolby Volume, a technology that solves a real-world problem by utilizing human psycho-acoustic algorithms to ensure a consistent volume level, even during commercials or when changing channels.
Bahnson, TD, Eyerly, SA, Hollender, PJ, Doherty, JR, Kim, YJ, Trahey, GE, and Wolf, PD. "Feasibility of near real-time lesion assessment during radiofrequency catheter ablation in humans using acoustic radiation force impulse imaging". Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology 25, no. 12 (December 1 , 2014: 1275-1283.
