The learning environment is discussed in terms of environmental components or factors that should be considered by the architect. The design factors to be considered and elaborated on are as follows--(1) program, (2) function, (3)light, (4) color, (5) acoustics, (6) temperature, (7) humidity, (8) spatial conformation, (9) structure, (10) site…

This position paper focuses on noise pollution and the problems and solutions associated with this form of pollution. The paper is divided into the following five sections: Noise and the Ear, Noise Measurement, III Effects of Noise, Acoustics and Action, and Programs and Activities. The first section identifies noise and sound, the beginnings of…

Nuffield Secondary Science is a set of tested materials from which teachers can prepare courses for students in grades 9-11 (approximately) who do not intend to major in science. The materials are designed for British secondary schools but are adaptable for other countries. The Teachers' Guide to the entire set of Themes is described in SE 015 440…

Critical bandwidth measurements and sensitivity prediction from the acoustic reflex test results were obtained on 20 adult normal-hearing and two groups of 10 adult hearing impaired Ss each representing mild-to-moderate and severe hearing loss. (Author)

Discusses the need for quick access to stored musical sounds for effective music learning, and describes random access audio hardware designed for use with the PLATO system. Examples are presented and five pedogogical principles derived are discussed. (Author/RAO)

An electrical engineer and phoneticist has taught himself to read voiceprints, spectrograms that display a plot of the sound frequency of speech against time. This technique may prove useful in training the deaf to read voiceprints or to mimic natural speech. (BB)

Provides an apparatus for the analysis and evaluation of television by categorizing the existential media factors such as light, two- and three-dimensional screen space, time-motion, and sound. The correlation of one factor, time, with experiental phenomena such as instantaneousness and irrevocability of the moment and the complexity of the…

Allophonic variations in the quality and voicelessness of British English Received Pronunciation /1/ were investigated, largely through their acoustic correlates as revealed by spectrography. (Author/RM)

The cry sounds of 12 well-nourished and 12 malnourished male infants were compared using behavioral and acoustic measures. (BRT)

The timbre of various Sonicguide (an ultar-sonic binaural device mounted in a spectacle frame) signals was measured and analyzed by a "Sona-Graph" (sound spectral analyzer) to aid/mobility training of blind Ss. (Author/MH)

Discusses experiments that investigated the sources of knowledge that are employed in spoken word identification. The interactive assumption that normal spoken word identification processes require the presence of semantic and syntactic context and the special status given to word-initial acoustic-phonetic information in cohort theory were…

Localization acuity was examined by determining the smallest sound shift off midline and along the horizontal axis that infants 6-18 months could reliably discriminate. As their age increased, infants demonstrated a finer partitioning of auditory space along the horizontal axis. (PCB)

Reviews the potential of a data acquisition system for illustrating the nature and significance of ideas in digital signal processing. Focuses on the fast Fourier transform and the utility of its two-channel format, emphasizing cross-correlation and its two-microphone technique of acoustic intensity measurement. Includes programing format. (ML)

Investigates the relation between neonatal cry features elicited by painful circumcision procedures and the perceived urgency of those cries. (HOD)

Develops a method of analyzing and describing the acoustic properties of fricatives, which consists of making frequency spectra using the Fast Fourier Transform and then analyzing the spectra in terms of critical bands. The six fricatives of Chinese are analyzed by this method, and comparison with other languages is made. (SED)