Jami Fung, Kelly L Whiteford, Anahita H Mehta, Bonnie K Lau
{"title":"Pitch perception in school-aged children: Pure tones, resolved and unresolved harmonics.","authors":"Jami Fung, Kelly L Whiteford, Anahita H Mehta, Bonnie K Lau","doi":"10.1121/10.0034894","DOIUrl":"10.1121/10.0034894","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Pitch perception affects children's ability to perceive speech, appreciate music, and learn in noisy environments, such as their classrooms. Here, we investigated pitch perception for pure tones as well as resolved and unresolved complex tones with a fundamental frequency of 400 Hz in 8- to 11-year-old children and adults. Pitch perception in children was better for resolved relative to unresolved complex tones, consistent with adults. The younger 8- to 9-year-old children had elevated thresholds across all conditions, while the 10- to 11-year-old children had comparable thresholds to adults.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11789513/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143061235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rehman Ali, Trevor Mitcham, Israel Owolabi, Sarah McConnell, Nebojsa Duric
{"title":"Frequency-differencing strategy to kickstart full-waveform inversion without cycle skipping.","authors":"Rehman Ali, Trevor Mitcham, Israel Owolabi, Sarah McConnell, Nebojsa Duric","doi":"10.1121/10.0034763","DOIUrl":"10.1121/10.0034763","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Ultrasound tomography fundamentally relies on low-frequency data to avoid cycle skipping in full-waveform inversion (FWI). In the absence of sufficiently low-frequency data, we can extrapolate low-frequency content from existing high-frequency signals by using the same approach used in frequency-difference beamforming. This low-frequency content is then used to kickstart FWI and avoid cycle skipping at higher frequencies. In simulations, the structural similarity index measure and peak signal-to-noise ratio of the reconstructed image improve by 0.28 and 8.6 dB, respectively, as a result of frequency differencing. Experiments show that internal structures can be seen with greater clarity because of frequency differencing.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11734264/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142928803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zhaohui Du, Yinan Zhu, Han Zhang, Xuchen Wang, Wenyan Lu
{"title":"Sparse deconvolution beamforming with non-negative L1-αL2 regularization for acoustic source localization.","authors":"Zhaohui Du, Yinan Zhu, Han Zhang, Xuchen Wang, Wenyan Lu","doi":"10.1121/10.0035418","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0035418","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This letter proposed a sparse deconvolution localization method (FFT-L1ML2) driven by non-convex L1-αL2 regularization that more closely approximates the ideal L0 norm. It is an alternative that explores the sparse structure of sound sources to enhance localization accuracy, while the original sparse deconvolution beamforming lacks a sufficiently accurate sparse description. An optimization solver composed of forward gradient descent and backward proximal operator is then developed for the FFT-L1ML2 model to reconstruct the beamforming map. Both simulation and experimental results show the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed method in localization accuracy, energy concentration, pseudo source reduction, and computational cost.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143034807","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}
Justin M Aronoff, Jordan Deutsch, Josephine R LaPapa
{"title":"Using harmonicity to facilitate binaural fusion.","authors":"Justin M Aronoff, Jordan Deutsch, Josephine R LaPapa","doi":"10.1121/10.0034883","DOIUrl":"10.1121/10.0034883","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Harmonicity is an organizing principle in the auditory system, facilitating auditory object formation. The goal of the current study is to determine if harmonicity also facilitates binaural fusion. Participants listened to pairs of two-tone harmonic complex tones that were harmonically or inharmonically related to each other. When the components of two inharmonically related complex tones were divided between the ears, the resulting percept was not binaurally fused. In contrast, when the components of two harmonically related complex tones were divided between the ears, binaural fusion occurred, even absent interaural spectral overlap. This suggests that harmonicity can facilitate binaural fusion.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11760666/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143017777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the mechanism underlying two distinct types of nonlinear sound absorption trends of porous layers.","authors":"Feng Peng","doi":"10.1121/10.0034823","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0034823","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Through non-dimensional analysis of the nonlinear sound absorption characteristics of rigid-porous layers, the results indicate that the nonlinear sound absorption trend of a porous layer (PL) at high sound pressure levels (SPLs) mainly depends on the state of flow resistance matching. When a PL is in an under-matched state, the sound absorption coefficient (SAC) will initially rise to a maximum and then gradually decline as SPL increases. Comparatively, when it is in an over-matched state, the SAC will decrease monotonically. In light of this understanding, several guidelines are proposed to improve the sound absorption performance of PLs at high SPLs.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142933812","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":"Comment on \"Dolphin and porpoise detections by the F-POD are not independent: Implications for sympatric species monitoring\" [JASA Express Lett. 4, 031202 (2024)].","authors":"Nicholas Tregenza, Julia Ivanchikova","doi":"10.1121/10.0034784","DOIUrl":"10.1121/10.0034784","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Dolphin and porpoise detections by the F-POD are not independent: Implications for sympatric species monitoring, Cosentino, Marcolin, Griffiths, Sánchez-Camí, and Tougaard [(2024). JASA Express Lett. 4, 031202] address a significant issue, the reliability of the discrimination of dolphins and porpoises in recordings of their acoustic clicks by F-POD loggers, but unfortunately present a misleading interpretation of the process and results. The issues raised are already stated in a published description of the relevant KERNO-F classifier. We hope this response will clarify both the acoustic issues and how they can be best addressed.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142959913","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":"A primer on low-carbon design in architectural acoustics using a case study of residential floorsa).","authors":"Kristen R Murphy, Jonathan M Broyles","doi":"10.1121/10.0034783","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0034783","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Designers are increasingly tasked to reduce the carbon footprint of buildings. While core disciplines (e.g., mechanical and structural) are determining sustainable design strategies, understanding the environmental impacts of architectural acoustics is nascent. Yet, acoustic design decisions provide opportunities to minimize building carbon emissions while ensuring suitable acoustic performance. In response, this paper first motivates the need for design synergies between architectural acoustics and sustainability practices. Second, this paper educates and equips acousticians to participate in sustainable design decisions by demonstrating a life cycle assessment framework to inform the selection of low-carbon floor-ceiling assemblies in residential buildings while satisfying sound isolation requirements.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142959911","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":"Through-the-sensor sub-bottom imaging using the self-noise of an autonomous underwater vehiclea).","authors":"Karim G Sabra, Paige Pfenninger, Ying-Tsong Lin","doi":"10.1121/10.0035420","DOIUrl":"10.1121/10.0035420","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This work demonstrates the feasibility of performing through-the-sensor (TTS) sub-bottom imaging using low-frequency ([100 Hz-1kHz]) self-noise generated by the propulsion of an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) acting as a source of opportunity. The self-noise was recorded by a short towed horizontal line array (11.4 m aperture) by the same AUV while it operated ∼35 m above the seabed along a range-dependent section at the New England shelf break. The seabed and sub-bottom layers imaged by this TTS method were found to be consistent with the images simultaneously obtained at higher frequency [2.5-4.5 kHz] using a conventional active source mounted on the AUV.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143025854","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":"The shift of attention: Salience modulates the local vs global processing of auditory scenes in musicians and non-musicians.","authors":"Baptiste Bouvier, Patrick Susini, Emmanuel Ponsot","doi":"10.1121/10.0034822","DOIUrl":"10.1121/10.0034822","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study addresses how salience shapes the perceptual organization of an auditory scene. A psychophysical task that was introduced previously by Susini, Jiaouan, Brunet, Houix, and Ponsot [(2020). Sci. Rep. 10(1), 16390] was adapted to assess how the ability of non-musicians and expert musicians to detect local/global contour changes in simple hierarchically-organized tone sequences is affected by the relative salience of local information in the timbre dimension. Overall, results show that salience enhanced local processing capacities, at the cost of global processing, suggesting a bottom-up reallocation of attention. Interestingly, for non-musicians, salience caused a reversal of the basic global-over-local processing prioritization as it is typically observed in expert musicians.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143017776","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":"Articulatory correlates of consonantal length contrasts: The case of Japanese mimetic geminates.","authors":"Francesco Burroni, Shigeto Kawahara, Jason A Shaw","doi":"10.1121/10.0034762","DOIUrl":"10.1121/10.0034762","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study investigates the articulatory correlates of consonantal length contrasts in Japanese mimetic words using electromagnetic articulography data. Regression and dynamic time warping analyses applied to intragestural timing, kinematic properties, and intergestural timing reveal that Japanese geminates are characterized by longer closure phases, longer gestural plateaus, higher tongue tip positions, larger movements, and lower stiffness. Geminates also exhibit distinct timing relationships with adjacent vowels, specifically, longer times to target that allow for longer preceding vowels. These findings shed light on the articulatory mechanisms underlying Japanese geminate production, their relationship to acoustics, and their characterization in a broader cross-linguistic perspective.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142959912","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}