ASA Lay Language Papers

• “Turning KA-BOOM! Into Ka-boom” (1aNS11) by Michelle E. Swearingen et al.
• “The Relationships Linking Age, Selective Attention, and Frequency Following in the Brainstem” (1aPP7) Dorea R. Ruggles and Barbara Shinn-Cunningham
• “Listening to the Ocean and Marine Life Using a Fiber-optic Monitoring System” (1aAO4) by Sue E. Moore et al.
• “Effects of Excessive Noise and Reverberation on Listening and Learning in a Simulated Classroom” (1pAAa9) by Daniel L. Valente et al.
• “Are We Stressing Flipper? How to Consider the Consequences of Underwater Noise and Other Human Activities on Marine Mammals” (1pABa1) by Andrew J. Wright
• “Biomedical Ultrasound: Making a Quantum Leap in Medicine” (1pID10) by Tyrone M. Porter
• “Deaf Infants’ Attention to Speech after Cochlear Implantation” (1pPP5) by Derek M. Houston
• “Perceptual Leaning in Adults with Reading Disorders: A Perpetual Adolescence?” (1pPP6) by Beverly A. Wright et al.
• “Identifying Sexual Orientation of Speakers When Presented With Only Their Voice” (1pSC19) by Erik C. Tracy and Nicholas Satariano

Tuesday, May 24

• “Studying Hard and Easy Sounds With Drunken Speech” (2aSC33) by Abby Kaplan
• “Studying the Effects of Man-made Noise on Marine Animals” (2aUWb1 and 3pED3) by Christine Erbe
• “Using Bubbles to Reduce Underwater Noise” (2aUWb11) by Kevin M. Lee et al.
• “Silencing Your Car With a Hybrid Muffler” (2pPA12) by Rong Bi et al.
• “How the Weather Affects the Scale of Urban Noise Pollution” (2pNS3) by Nick C. Ovenden et al.
• “Why do Blind Listeners Use Visual Cortex for Understanding Ultra-fast Speech?” (2pSC6) by Susanne Dietrich et al.

Wednesday, May 25

• “Why do Weddell Seals Shout” (3aABa2) by Jack Terhune
• “Feeling With Your Ears and Hearing With Your Hands” (3aPP4) by Jeffrey M. Yau et al.
• “Unusual Instruments” by (3aMU3) by Garry M. Kvistad
• “Evolution of Music Wire and its Impact on the Development of the Piano” (3aMU6) by Nicholas Giordano
• “Wind Turbine Noise – Clues to the Mystery of Why People are Hurting” (3aNSa2) by William K.G. Palmer
• “Wind Turbine Noise Regulations at State and Local Levels” (3aNSa5) by Isaac H.C. Old et al.
• “Feeling Sounds” (3aPP5) by Tony Ro
• “'How Did She Say That?’ An Examination of Male-to-female Transgender Voice Physiology” (3aSC19) by Adrienne B. Hancock et al.
• “Building the Oceanic Concert Hall: The Many Applications of Acoustics for Ocean Observing Systems” (3pID4) by Brian D. Dushaw
• “Understanding the Perceptual Effects of Diffuser Application in Rooms” (3aAAa7) by Phillip W. Robinson et al.
• "Laser sensing techniques for acoustic detection of buried mines" (3aEAa1) by Vyacheslav Aranchuk et al.

Thursday, May 26

• “Demonstrating the Effect of Air Temperature on Wind Instrument Tuning” (4aED1) by Randy Worland
• “Soundscape Tour of San Francisco” (4pAA1) by Dennis A. Paoletti
• “An Experience Reducing Toilet Flushing Noise Reaching Adjacent Offices” (4pAAb4) by Noral D. Stewart
• “Spacecraft Damage-detection System for Human Habitation Modules” (4pEA2) by Robert D. Corsaro et al.

Friday, May 27

• “Effects of Noise on Emergency Department Staff” (5aAA5) by Arun Mahapatra et al.
• “Measuring How Acoustical Environments Affect Staff in Health-Care Facilities?” (5aAA6) by Murray Hodgson et al. 
• “Novel, Noninvasive Diagnostic Technique for Patient Monitoring and Imaging” (5aBA3) Rinat Esenaliev et al.
• “Photoacoustic Imaging and Detection of Circulating Tumor Cells” (5aBA5) by Matthew O’Donnell and Xiaohu Gao
• “Advanced Acoustics Video Demonstrations for High School and Higher Education Curriculums: Longitudinal Wave Motion Videos” (5zED3) by Robert Astrom
• “How Can We Prevent Hearing Loss When There is Loud Noise at Work?” (5aNS4) by Thais C. Morata
• “The Sources and Effects of Motorcycle Noise” (5aNS12) by Michael Carley et al.
• “Spectral Filtering Characteristics of a Motorcycle Helmet” (5aNS14) by Ian Walker et al.
• “Acoustics Properties of Natural Gas Hydrates and the Geophysical Assessment of the Subsurface Distribution of Hydrates in the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic” (5aPA1) by William Shedd et al.
• “Rotating Multibeam Sonar Scanner (ROSSCAN) for oily bubble plume mapper in plume mapping and monitoring” (5aPA4) by Ira Leifer et al.
• “Motorcycle Helmets and the Frequency Dependence of Temporary Hearing Threshold Shift” (5aPP1) by Nigel Holt et al.
• “Using Spectral Constancy to Improve Cochlear Implant Melody Recognition” (5aPP13) by Duo Zhang et al.
• “Men Imitate Women, and Women Imitate Men – The Effect of Gender, Emotion, and Acoustics on Speech Imitation” (5aSC3) by Alexis Black
• “Adaptive Learning of Voice Quality Behavior as a Possible Cause of Muscle Tension Dysphonia” (5aSC14) by Kari Urberg Carlson et al.
• “Your Words are Music to My Ears: How a Musician’s Brain Represents Speech” (5aSC18) by McNeel G. Jantzen
• “Understanding Casual Speech” (5pSC17) by Dan Brenner et al.
• “Bring Music Back to Life for Cochlear Implant Patients” (5aPP15) by Xing Li et al.
• “Perceived Imitation of Regional Dialects” (5aSC2) Sara C. Phillips and Cynthia G. Clopper
• “Why is Understanding Foreign Accents So Hard?” (5aSC22) by Alison M. Trude and Sarah Brown-Schmidt
• “Rhythmic Speech Perception Shows How Music Novices ‘Compose’ (in English and French)” (5pSC5) by John G. Neuhoff and Pascale Lidji