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Why Some Birds Are More Cautious Than Others
Two small blue and rust-colored birds perch on opposite sides of a tree stump, facing each other.
Virtual Acoustic Spaces: Research Collaboration with LEWITT
A person wearing headphones works at a computer audio setup, using software that displays a virtual studio environment on the monitor.
Giraffes use Birds as an Alarm System
Neck of a giraffe with red-billed obpecker resting on it.
Open Call: TENOR 2026 – Technologies for Music Notation & Representation

Events

Book Presentation: 3D-Audio Recording with Edwin Pfanzagl-Cardone
Edwin Pfanzagl-Cardone sits at a large audio mixing console in a studio and looks toward the camera.

New Publications

Listeners Use Speaker Gender Information in Non-Native Phoneme Categorization
A group of silhouetted people are talking and interacting in an outdoor setting, with colorful speech bubbles floating above them to symbolize conversation and communication.
The Role of Spatial Perception in Auditory Looming Bias: Neurobehavioral Evidence from Impossible Ears
This figure is taken from the study and illustrates the experimental conditions and hypotheses. It shows how different ear filtering models were used to investigate the auditory looming bias.
Open Access Book Explores Animal Behavior Through Sound – Volume 2
Book cover of Exploring Animal Behavior Through Sound: Volume 2 – Applications, edited by Christine Erbe and Jeanette A. Thomas. The design shows an underwater scene with corals, fish, and a hydrophone, highlighting the focus on acoustic studies in animal behavior.
BezierPPM: a new parametric model of the human pinna