Observed psychoacoustic events are often incompatible with musical knowledge. The point has been made particularly in the realm of pitch theory. This paper will contend that it is not the case that musical knowledge does not apply to psychophysical tasks…

There has been comparatively little study of train noise acceptability. This paper reviews state-of-the-art knowledge on the subject, and suggests criteria in terms of Leq.

The Noise and Vibration Section of the Division of Building Research (DBR) is concerned as the name suggests, with problems of acoustics and vibration as they relate to buildings. The work in the Section includes (1) studies of basic physical…

This paper attempts to summarize those aspects of noise related to health. In a field in which technology is advancing rapidly and where research into noise-induced bioeffects is unable to keep pace with these advances, no attempt has been made…

A new method is proposed, to measure the open porosity of porous solids. The method needs a simple apparatus and its accuracy is predictable from the knowledge of the total bulk volume of the tested porous sample. Volume needs to…

The emphasis is put on the hierarchical structure, independence and sparseness aspects of auditory signalrepresentations in high-dimensional spaces, so as to define the components of auditory objects. The conceptof an auditory object and its neural representation is introduced. An illustrative…

In problems of sound propagation outdoors it is usually assumed that the ground is infinitely hard, and that sound from a point source spreads in the space above the ground according to the inverse square law. At large distances molecular…