TECHNICAL PROGRAM AND SPECIAL SESSIONS

Choral singing
Acoustics of the singing voice in the context of large vocal ensembles, and signal analysis properties of choirs

Engineering noise control for the mining industry
Measurements, strategies, further planning

Academic geneology poster session
(Joint with Education in Acoustics)
Show us your siblings (fellow graduate students), parents (thesis advisor, committee members), grandparents ( their advisors), as well as those from your post-graduate careers (post-doc advisor, your current and former graduate students) and show where they have gone, who they begot, etc. "Come to the session and discover long-lost members of your academic family"

Acoustic signal processing: Signal processing and uncertainty
(Joint with Acoustical Oceanography and Underwater Acoustics)
Effects of randomness and uncertainty to performance of detection and classification

Passive imaging and monitoring using random wavefields
(Joint with Acoustical Oceanography)
Theoretical and experimental studies of the propagating medium using coherent processing of random wavefields (ambient noise, scattered fields, sources of opportunity)

Dr. Sean K. Lehman
LLNL/EE/DSED
L-154, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
7000 East Avenue
Livermore, CA 94550-9234 USA

(925) 423-3580
(925) 423-3144 FAX
lehman2@llnl.gov

GENERAL INFORMATION

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Registration fees are as follows:

                             		Preregistration by  	Onsite Registration
Category                     		7 May            		

ASA Members		            		$350                	$425      

ASA Members One-Day    				$175                	$215

Nonmembers                    			$400                	$475

Nonmembers One-Day            			$200                	$240

Nonmember Invited Speakers
One Day Only			    		$0                  	$0

Nonmember Invited Speakers Full Week		$110			$110
(Includes one-year ASA membership 
upon completion of an ASA application)

ASA Student Members
with current ID cards)        			$0                  	$25

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(with current ID cards)

Emeritus members of ASA       			$50            	   	$75      
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Accompanying Persons          			$50                 	$70
(Spouses and other registrants who 
will not participate in the technical 
sessions)

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Binaural loudness summation for tones and noise. Albert B. Jones, Jr. (Dept. of Psychology,

Northeastern Univ., 1600 Massachusetts Ave., Boston, MA 02115, abj@server.edu) and Irene J.

Knox (Boston Univ., Boston, MA 02115) The relation between binaural and monaural loudness

was measured by magnitude stimation for a 1000-Hz tone and for band-limited white noise.

Four types of stimuli--monaural and binaural tone, monaural and binaural noise--were presented

frontally at eight sound pressure levels (SPL) in mixed randomly selected sequences. Subjects

were instructed to rate the four stimuli according to a single loudness scale. The loudness of the

monaural and binaural tones was found to be a power function of the mean square sound

pressure, with an exponent near 0.5. The loudness of the noise increased more rapidly at low

SPL than loudness of the tone; at high SPL it increased more slowly. The bow shape of the noise

function would be predicted from loudness matches between wide-band and narrow-band

stimuli. A sound perceived binaurally was 1.3 to 1.7 times louder than sound of the same SPL

perceived monaurally. Results of these direct loudness estimations agree almost perfectly with

earlier results [D.E. McGee and I.J. Knox, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 57, 55-62 (1975)] from another

group of subjects who made loudness matches between binaural and monaural stimuli. [Work

supported by NSF.]

Number of words in abstract: 187
Suggested for special session on Loudness and Perception
Technical Area: Psychological and Physiological Acoustics
Special facility: VCR and 25" color monitor
PACS Subject Classification number(s): 43.66.Cb
Method of presentation: Prefer lecture but willing to give as poster
Human/Animal Subjects: "I certify that I have complied with ASA Guiding Principles"
Student Paper Competition: P&P Telephone Number: 516-576-2360 (I. J. Knox)
FAX: 516-576-2377
Send notice to: I. J. Knox
Email: ijk@server.com

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