Michael J B Lotinga, Carlos Ramos-Romero, Marc C Green, Antonio J Torija
{"title":"Quasi-psychoacoustic metrics for sound quality analysis of low-resolution data.","authors":"Michael J B Lotinga, Carlos Ramos-Romero, Marc C Green, Antonio J Torija","doi":"10.1121/10.0044476","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0044476","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Psychoacoustic metrics offer the means to analyse sound qualities using sophisticated models of human perception. A substantial drawback is the need for high-resolution acoustic data as input. Quasi-psychoacoustic metrics are proposed to address sound quality analysis when high-resolution acoustic data are unavailable. The proposed metrics aim to approximate sound qualities of loudness, sharpness, and tonal loudness using acoustic data with a much lower time resolution. As such, the metrics are expected to be primarily applicable to sounds featuring relatively slow modulations in intensity. A particular application case is used to validate the metrics: sound quality predictions for unmanned aircraft systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"6 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148581498","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}
Mingshuang Li, Yun Nan, Wei Tang, Wenjing Wang, Chang Liu
{"title":"Frequency modulation detection in Mandarin Chinese-speaking amusics across modulation rate, carrier frequency, and stimulus duration.","authors":"Mingshuang Li, Yun Nan, Wei Tang, Wenjing Wang, Chang Liu","doi":"10.1121/10.0044337","DOIUrl":"10.1121/10.0044337","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Frequency modulation (FM) detection was examined in Mandarin Chinese-speaking listeners with congenital amusia, including pure amusics and tone agnosics (without and with lexical tone deficits, respectively). Thresholds were measured across modulation rates, carrier frequencies, and stimulus durations. Amusics exhibited elevated FM detection thresholds relative to controls, with no difference between pure amusics and tone agnosics. No significant interactions were observed between listener group and acoustic parameters, suggesting the group difference did not vary reliably across modulation rates, carrier frequencies, or stimulus durations. These findings indicate an impairment in dynamic pitch encoding in congenital amusia, independent of lexical tone deficits.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"6 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148458064","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":"Evaluating peripheral neural processing through spectral analysis of auditory brainstem responses.","authors":"Bruna S Mussoi, Mark Hedrick","doi":"10.1121/10.0044353","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0044353","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>There has been renewed interest in using auditory brainstem responses (ABR) to examine peripheral auditory processing. Spectral-domain ABR analysis offers ease of objective quantification of neural responses and may highlight different information than time-domain peaks. Here, we compare time-domain and spectral-domain ABR features and characterize the effect of aging on the ABR spectrum. Both the amplitude spectral peaks and spectral phase-based group delays were strongly associated with time-domain ABR wave amplitude and latency, respectively, and showed significant effects of age irrespective of hearing sensitivity. These findings are encouraging, warranting further research.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"6 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148458103","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 multi-task neural network for source localization in shallow-water environment with depth classification.","authors":"Jing Guo, Juan Zeng","doi":"10.1121/10.0044372","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0044372","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Limited high-quality training data can cause overfitting and weak generalization in deep-learning-based source localization, leading to degraded performance in realistic environments. In this study, a multi-task neural network with a depth-classification branch is developed, motivated by the depth resolution of a vertical line array and the depth-dependent structure of the localization ambiguity surface. The depth-classification branch regularizes depth estimation and reduces model complexity, thereby mitigating overfitting in the range-regression branch. Transfer learning from simulations to experiments further improves performance with limited measurements. The developed network yields improved localization performance, as demonstrated using both simulated and experimental data.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"6 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148458097","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":"Contextual effects on the perception of temporal cues in speech appear unchanged by noise.","authors":"Zilong Xie","doi":"10.1121/10.0044440","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0044440","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examined how energetic masking and informational masking influence the interaction between acoustic and lexical-semantic cues in speech recognition. Younger to middle-aged adults completed an online phonemic categorization task using a dent-tent continuum varying in voice-onset time (VOT), embedded in dent-biasing, tent-biasing, or neutral sentence contexts. Sentences were presented in quiet, speech-shaped noise or two-talker babble. Lexical-semantic context consistently biased VOT perception toward the contextual cue, independent of noise condition. Speech-shaped noise degraded VOT perception relative to quiet and two-talker babble. These findings indicate that linguistic context and acoustic interference may exert largely independent influences on temporal cue perception.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"6 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148474628","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 field extrapolation in shallow water using Gaussian process with Normal-Mode-Based Kernel.","authors":"An Yang, Peng Xiao, Zhengyu Hou, Zhenglin Li","doi":"10.1121/10.0044477","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0044477","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In ocean acoustics, vertical array depth shifts caused by currents lead to missing shallow-water acoustic field data. This study applies a Gaussian process (GP) regression framework with a Normal-Mode-Based Kernel to address the extrapolation problem in transmission loss reconstruction. Based on simulations of the 2024 South China Sea experiment environment and validation with measured data from the SWellEx-96 experiment, the GP approach successfully extrapolates the acoustic field to missing depths. Results demonstrate that, compared to using the transmission loss value at the closest available depth as a reference, the reconstruction error is significantly reduced. Furthermore, by incorporating dominant modal prior information, the Normal-Mode-Based Kernel-GP method maintains reliable performance even for complex sound fields, improving reconstruction stability under array deployment uncertainties.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"6 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148581508","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}
Jeremy Lawrence, Zeyu Xu, Andreas Walther, Nils Peters, Emanuël A P Habets
{"title":"Integrating atmospheric fluctuations into the image source method.","authors":"Jeremy Lawrence, Zeyu Xu, Andreas Walther, Nils Peters, Emanuël A P Habets","doi":"10.1121/10.0044473","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0044473","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Successive room impulse response (RIR) measurements exhibit subtle variations, mainly caused by atmospheric fluctuations due to spatiotemporal air-temperature differences. This work extends the image source method by incorporating temperature-induced variability through global deterministic drift and stochastic local volatility. Measurements in a shoebox room show that the proposed model reproduces key behaviors observed in practice, including the structure of differential RIRs, temporal variance of early reflections and coherence of late reverb, which fluctuation-free simulations fail to capture. The method increases realism without increasing the algorithmic complexity, enabling simulations that better reflect the variability encountered by algorithms in real measurement scenarios.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"6 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148594889","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":"Electroacoustic single-cell spectroscopy for morphological differentiation of red blood cells: An in silico feasibility study.","authors":"Anuj Kaushik, Mayank Kumar, Rochish Thaokar, Himanshu Shekhar","doi":"10.1121/10.0044334","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0044334","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A computational electroacoustic framework is presented for morphology-dependent characterization of single red blood cells. Electric fields obtained via finite-element modeling were converted into initial electroacoustic pressure sources and propagated using k-Wave simulations. Normal red blood cells and stomatocytes were modeled using Cassini ovals, while spherocyte, elliptocyte, echinocyte, and sickle geometries were constructed using analytical contours with equal 2D cross-sectional area. Simulated time-domain signals exhibit morphology-dependent variations in amplitude and temporal width, while frequency spectra (1-1000 MHz) reveal distinct first spectral minima for each cell type. These electroacoustic signatures demonstrate the feasibility of label-free single-cell characterization and establish a foundation for electroacoustic flow cytometry.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"6 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148458044","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}
G Christopher Stecker, Brittany T Williams, Niklas Isserstedt, Kerry A Walker, Matthew J Goupell, Mathias Dietz, Daniel J Tollin
{"title":"Spectral weighting of interaural time differences near the low-frequency dominant region in young and middle-aged adults.","authors":"G Christopher Stecker, Brittany T Williams, Niklas Isserstedt, Kerry A Walker, Matthew J Goupell, Mathias Dietz, Daniel J Tollin","doi":"10.1121/10.0044363","DOIUrl":"10.1121/10.0044363","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Spectral weighting functions (SWF) were measured for lateralization of complex tones via interaural time difference (ITD), with higher frequency resolution (1/4-octave) compared to prior studies. SWFs revealed a region of dominant ITD weight spanning 400-1000 Hz on average and dropping precipitously between 1000 and 1400 Hz. SWF peak frequencies varied across individuals and favored lower frequencies on trials which presented larger overall ITD values (±200 μs), consistent with the expected relationship between frequency and the range of unambiguous ITD.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"6 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13374112/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148439230","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":"Coarticulation vs Phonologization: Evidence from Southern Italo-Romance.","authors":"Pia Greca, Francesco Burroni, Jonathan Harrington","doi":"10.1121/10.0044338","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0044338","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study compares the variety of Italian spoken in Campania and the Italo-Romance variety of Mormanno (Calabria) to investigate the acoustic differences between phonetic vowel-to-vowel coarticulation and phonologized metaphony. The study analyzed time-varying F1 trajectories and quantified mutual information between stem and suffix vowels. While coarticulation was temporally localized in Campanian Italian, Mormanno showed a phonologized pattern in which the suffix influence extended from stem onset to offset. Despite this stronger influence, there was reduced mutual information and reduced suffix distinctiveness in Mormanno. These findings indicate that sound change involves decoupling acoustic cues from coarticulatory sources, signaling a transition from phonetic variation to phonological change.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"6 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148458022","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}