In the natural world, many situations exist in which a percept remains constant in the presence of profound changes in the physical stimulus affecting the sensory receptors. Some of the most ...

So far we have only considered sound as a disturbance that propagates in one direction. However, in reality sound propagates in three dimensions. This means that the sound from a source does not ...

What are the loudest sounds at UB? Where are the university’s quietest spots? What unlikely noises here are around 60 decibels, the level typically associated with a normal conversation between two ...

Megan Gerhart, Au.D. received her doctorate of audiology from the University of Florida. She has experience helping pediatrics to geriatrics both in private practice and medical models of care. She ...

Objectives To determine whether quantifying both the absolute and relative intensity of accelerometer-assessed physical activity (PA) can inform PA interventions. We hypothesised that individuals ...

So far we have only considered sound in isolation and we have seen that sound has velocity, frequency, wavelength and reduces in intensity in proportion to the square of the distance from the source.