Word: ears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Memorial Hall may he 80 years behind the times in architecture, but its basement is startlingly up-to-date with the new Psycho-Acoustical. Laboratory hot on the trail of revolutionary discoveries on the mechanics and psychology of the ear...
...sound is analyzed and differentiation in the ear in the foremost problem at the present time. This portion of the research is being handled by George von Bekesy, research lecturer in the Psycho-Acoustical Laboratory and head of the department of physics in the University of Budapest...
Bekesy has, over a period of 20 years, developed a technique for observing what happens inside the inner and middle ear. Using microscopes and fine hair probes, he is able to measure the elasticity of the inner membrane and to observe its motions and mechanical properties...
...original studies are Walter A. Bosenblith and Robert Galambos, M.D., both Research Fellows in the Psycho-Acoustical Laboratory. Rosenblith, a physicist, is doing electrical measurements of sound, while Galambos is interested in correlating known psychological facts of hearing with such physiological data as may come to light in the ear experiments. The problem is, in fact, "how do we hear?," Galambos says...
Another member of the Cambridge gandarmeric, who had the doubtful distinction of finding his own ear tagged one night, also revealed that early morning check-ups, facilitated by relatively clear streets, were the principal source of information leading to the recovery of stolen automobiles...