Records of the Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory, 1940-1972 (inclusive).

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Records of the Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory, 1940-1972 (inclusive).

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Contains correspondence and other records of S.S. Stevens, director of the Laboratory, and including building specifications, faculty folders, budget reports, memoranda, and photographs, 1942-1972, regarding relations of the Laboratory to the Harvard University Psychology Department, laboratory facilities in Memorial Hall, teaching, and other matters. Material for World War II and subsequent research contracts include items relating to administrative and technical matters. These records include correspondence, memoranda, budget, progress and other reports concerning Harvard work for organizations such as National Defense Research Committee, U.S. Army and Navy, National Science Foundation, Bell Telephone Laboratories, Federal Communications Commission, and National Research Council. Also includes related project files for apparatus designed by the Laboratory under wartime contracts with memoranda, patent agreements, reports, anthropometric data, drawings and photographs, personnel and equipment records; and Laboratory of Psychophysics computer programs.

ca. 11 cubic feet (34 containers)

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Harvard University Archives.

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Harvard University. Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory

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The Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory was established in 1940 to conduct research on speech, hearing, and communications during World War II. It was founded by Stanley Smith Stevens, as part of an initiative to reduce noise problems experienced by bomber pilots. During the War, the Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory collaborated extensively with another Harvard Institution, the Electro-Acoustic Laboratory headed by Leo Beranek. It continued to operate after the War and in 1962 it was renamed the Laboratory of ...

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Stevens, S.S. (Stanley Smith), 1906-1973

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Stevens was an authority on the physics of sensory perception, especially hearing. His primary contribution was Stevens' Law, which states that the magnitude of a sensation grows as a power function of the intensity of the stimulus. He was director of the Psycho-Acoustics Laboratory and the Psychophysics Laboratory at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Stanley Smith Stevens, 1931-1973 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 62555827 From the descriptio...