{"title":"Effects of age, stimulus degradation, and sentence context on auditory temporal processing.","authors":"Zilong Xie, Madeline Johnson","doi":"10.1121/10.0036250","DOIUrl":"10.1121/10.0036250","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examined how age, stimulus degradation, and sentence context affect sensitivity to speech temporal cues. Adults aged 20-72 with self-reported normal hearing completed a phonemic categorization task using unprocessed and 8-channel vocoded (simulating stimulus degradation in cochlear implants) versions of a dent/tent contrast with varying voice-onset times. Target words were embedded in sentences biased toward \"dent\" or \"tent,\" or presented in a neutral context. Advancing age reduced voice-onset time sensitivity regardless of sentence context, although this effect was less pronounced for vocoded stimuli. These results suggest that age-related temporal processing deficits may be unaffected by top-down linguistic influences.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"5 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143665535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Computing coherent phonon lifetimes in layered acoustic cavities.","authors":"Jesus Alejandro Avendano Bolivar, Kevin Brenner","doi":"10.1121/10.0036253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0036253","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The confinement of coherent phonons in acoustic cavities can lead to ultrahigh-frequency resonators and may tap into the quantum nature of phonons. Their practicality is linked to the coherent phonon lifetime or the characteristic time scale for the phonons to decohere. This letter presents molecular dynamics simulations to compute lifetimes in cavities formed with layered crystal. In a representative layered crystal, bilayer molybdenum disulfide, the lifetimes are computed as a function of two dominant scattering mechanisms (anharmonic and defect) with phonon-mode-level insight. This computational framework is scalable to cavities with the large chemical and physical complexities found in experiments.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"5 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143712408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Laura Gutiérrez, Susannah Buchan, Kathleen M Stafford, Mark Baumgartner, Luis Bedriñana-Romano, Nadin Ramirez, Oscar Pizarro
{"title":"Detection ranges of blue whale vocalizations from a glider-based hydrophone.","authors":"Laura Gutiérrez, Susannah Buchan, Kathleen M Stafford, Mark Baumgartner, Luis Bedriñana-Romano, Nadin Ramirez, Oscar Pizarro","doi":"10.1121/10.0034614","DOIUrl":"10.1121/10.0034614","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study investigated the detection range (DR) of blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus sp.) vocalizations (SEP2 and D-calls) in Chilean Patagonia using data collected from ocean glider-based hydrophones. DRs were determined by calculating the figure of merit of each vocalization. SEP2 consistently exhibited a greater DR compared to D-calls across the study area. Glider depth and bathymetry emerged as the most influential factors affecting DR. Taking DR and the factors that influence it into account enables a more robust interpretation of acoustic studies on the spatial distribution of cetaceans.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"5 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143702415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Acoustic analysis of two Hindu temples in Southern India.","authors":"Shashank Aswathanarayana, Braxton Boren","doi":"10.1121/10.0036033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0036033","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Virupaksha temple in Pattadakal and the Vijaya Vittala temple in Hampi are excellent examples of Hindu temple architecture from the 8th and 15th centuries, respectively, and both have historical links to musical performance. This paper furthers the emerging field of archeoacoustics, analyzing the impulse responses and decay curves from both temples. Given the importance of frequency-focused elements of Hindu worship, alongside standard acoustic parameters like T30 and C80, a frequency-domain analysis was performed. Results indicate low-frequency amplification akin to other cultural heritage sites, but the resonance quality and width differ, establishing a basis for further research in this area.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"5 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143544757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sonar micro-Doppler effect induced by ship oscillatory motion in waves: Phenomenon, model, and experimentation.","authors":"Minhao Wang, Cuie Zheng, Dajun Sun, Jian Xu","doi":"10.1121/10.0035914","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0035914","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Traditional research attributes the modulated sidebands of ship radiation line-spectrum signals to reflections off rough ocean surfaces, but the Doppler effect caused by vessel motion may also contribute. This study establishes a micro-Doppler signal model based on wave-induced ship swaying, explaining that this phenomenon arises from the ship oscillatory motion in waves. The sea trial results demonstrate that the peak wave frequency, the frequency of ship micro-motions, and the micro-Doppler characteristic frequency recorded by the beacon exhibit a sudden frequency shift occurring synchronously from 0.075 to 0.115 Hz, thereby verifying the validity of the proposed model.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"5 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143416445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Scaling laws for nonlinear dynamical models of articulatory control.","authors":"Sam Kirkham","doi":"10.1121/10.0035560","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0035560","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Dynamical theories of speech use computational models of articulatory control to generate quantitative predictions and advance understanding of speech dynamics. The addition of a nonlinear restoring force to task dynamic models is a significant improvement over linear models, but nonlinearity introduces challenges with parameterization and interpretability. We illustrate these problems through numerical simulations and introduce solutions in the form of scaling laws. We apply the scaling laws to a cubic model and show how they facilitate interpretable simulations of articulatory dynamics and can be theoretically interpreted as imposing physical and cognitive constraints on models of speech movement dynamics.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"5 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143082566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Using residual H1* for voice quality researcha).","authors":"Mykel Loren Brinkerhoff, Grant McGuire","doi":"10.1121/10.0035881","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0035881","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>One of the most common ways of assessing voice quality is through the spectral slope measure H1*-H2*. However, Chai and Garellek [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 152(3), 1856-1870 (2022)] propose and demonstrate the robustness of a new measure-residual H1*. In this study, we test the reliability of residual H1* in capturing voice quality contrasts in Santiago Laxopa Zapotec. We find that residual H1* is a more robust measure of voice quality than H1*-H2* and can capture the differences in voice quality in Santiago Laxopa Zapotec, which supports the use of this measure in voice quality research.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"5 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143460995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zhaokai Zhai, Fenghua Li, Feilong Zhu, Bo Zhang, Duo Zhai, Junjie Mao
{"title":"Synthetic adaptive matched field processing for moving source range estimation in deep water.","authors":"Zhaokai Zhai, Fenghua Li, Feilong Zhu, Bo Zhang, Duo Zhai, Junjie Mao","doi":"10.1121/10.0035772","DOIUrl":"10.1121/10.0035772","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Adaptive matched field processing (AMFP) has proven effective for source localization in deep-water environments. However, when the target is in motion, the need for numerous snapshot samples can lead to distortion in covariance estimation, degrading AMFP performance. A synthetic AMFP method has been proposed to compensate for the phase of multi-snapshot signals, enhancing AMFP performance. Additionally, a rough estimation of target velocity is obtained. The efficacy of the method has been validated through numerical simulations and experimental data, with results showing that, within a 9 km range, the average localization error is reduced by 1.45 km compared to traditional AMFP.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"5 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143366907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mary Pietrowicz, Kaci Cunningham, Dylan J Thompson, Fiona Gruzmark, Alexis Reinders, Anna Ford, Sonia Pulido, Carmen Calhoun, Milon Hutchinson, Victor Javier Medina, Ryan Finkenbine, Sarah E Donohue
{"title":"Automated acoustic voice screening techniques for comorbid depression and anxiety disorders.","authors":"Mary Pietrowicz, Kaci Cunningham, Dylan J Thompson, Fiona Gruzmark, Alexis Reinders, Anna Ford, Sonia Pulido, Carmen Calhoun, Milon Hutchinson, Victor Javier Medina, Ryan Finkenbine, Sarah E Donohue","doi":"10.1121/10.0034851","DOIUrl":"10.1121/10.0034851","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Anxiety disorders (AD) and major depressive disorders (MDD) are growing in prevalence, yet many people suffering from these disorders remain undiagnosed due to known perceptual, attitudinal, and structural barriers. Methods, tools, and technologies that can overcome these barriers and improve screening rates are needed. Tools based on automated analysis of acoustic voice could help bridge this gap. Comorbid AD/MDD presents additional challenges since some effects of AD and MDD oppose one another. Here, acoustic models that use acoustic and phonemic data from verbal fluency tests to discern the presence of comorbid AD/MDD are presented, with the best results of F1 = 0.83.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"5 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143191403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Phase of the seabed frequency-domain reflection coefficient: Measurements and modelinga).","authors":"Charles W Holland","doi":"10.1121/10.0035583","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0035583","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The phase of the seabed frequency-domain reflection coefficient potentially contains valuable information on the geoacoustic properties in a layered/refracting seabed. However, heretofore, the phase has not been exploited. Measurements of phase are presented in an area of thick mud at the New England Mud Patch. In addition, a model is presented along with the modeling results. While this is only a first step towards understanding the potential value of exploiting the phase, it seems clear that in some instances, the phase not only contains valuable geoacoustic information, but carries a higher information content than the magnitude.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"5 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143082563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}