Common Book 2013-14: In Pursuit of Silence: Chapters 2 & 3

Source of "sound shadow" mentioned in Ch. 2.

1960 New York Times article about Dr. Samuel Rosen

1963 New York Times article about Dr. Rosen's work.

2007 Nature article about work of Zhe-Xi Luo, mentioned in Ch. 2

2007 New York Times article referenced in Ch. 2

1938 New York Times article referenced in Ch. 3

1944 New York Times article referenced in Ch. 3

1939 New York Times article (with volume charts) referenced in Ch. 3

1983 journal article by Eugene S. Morton referenced in Ch. 3

From the abstract: "We have long wondered what functions and meanings animal vocalizations have for animals and how these are related to our own unique speech. Since Darwin (1872), biologists have described vocalizations with the view that, once many repertoires are studied, the process of comparing animals' sounds will lead to an understanding of how communication evolves. Since the 1950s the descriptions of sounds have utilized the sound spectrograph..."

1977 journal article by Eugene S. Morton referenced in Ch. 3

2008 journal article referenced in Ch. 3

2006 journal article referenced in Ch. 3

2007 journal article referenced in Ch. 3

From the abstract: "Noise is typically conceived of as being detrimental to cognitive performance. However, given the mechanism of stochastic resonance, a certain amount of noise can benefit performance. We investigate cognitive performance in noisy environments in relation to a neurocomputational model of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and dopamine."

1988 journal article referenced in Ch. 3

2008 journal article referenced in Ch. 3

1933 New York Times article referenced in Ch. 3