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More info on the study available here!
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including: summary of the results, why we chose to analyze Taylor Swift, the scientific and social value, how you can make your own measurements, and the greater context of what our lab does

Few people know that one of the many times I asked you for coding help, you pointed your finger to the sky like a superhero about to take flight, and exclaimed "to the source code!"

citation: Greenwood, D. (1990). "A cochlear frequency-position function for several species – 29 years later". Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 87 (6): 2592–2605.

substitute continuous vs. log10 scaling for the axis in the code as you please!

ggplot(data.frame(pos = seq(0,32,1)))+
aes(x = pos, y = mm2freq(pos))+
geom_point()+
scale_x_continuous(breaks = seq(0,32,4),
name = "Basilar membrane position (mm from apex)")+
scale_y_log10(
name = "Frequency (Hz)",
breaks = round(500*2^(seq(-5,5,1))))

or, in reverse, find the frequency that lives on a specific spot on the basilar membrane

mm2freq <- function(position=NULL, A = 165.4, a = 2.1, length = 35, k = 0.88){
return(A*((10^((a*position)/length))-k))}

ggplot(data.frame(freq=10^(seq(1.4,4.3,0.1))))+
aes(x = freq, y = freq2mm(freq))+
geom_point()+
scale_y_continuous(breaks=seq(0,32,4),
name = "Basilar membrane position (mm from apex)")+
scale_x_log10(
name = "Frequency (Hz)",
breaks = round(500*2^(seq(-5,5,1))))

then we climb up the vowel space and land on ʊ where it belongs!

Wooder is definitely caught when I'm outside the Philly region
Must... retain ... rounding!

(2/2)... people with cochlear implants show more carryover effort from one utterance to the next, which would impair flowing conversation. Importantly, the amount of carryover effort was not predictable just based on the listener’s percent-correct score!

My preferred guiding principle is to make it clear what your scientific identity is. Very often a person thinks their job is to be good at lots of things, but they are more rewarded for clearly being THE go-to person for a specialty.