My talk will explore how and why minor candidates fail to draw support from religious Americans, demonstrating continuities among the most important minor presidential candidates of the 20th century and offering some modest new insight into the recent presidential bids of H. Ross Perot. Finally, I will describe how the insights gained from this research bear on the question of whether a third, viable political party will ever take root in the United States. Historically, there have been two different theories of pitch perception. The first is that there is a spectral analysis in the inner ear so that different frequencies excite different places along the structure mediating mechanical transduction, the basilar membrane. An alternative to this place theory, a temporal theory, suggests that the pitch of a stimulus is related to the time pattern of neural impulses evoked by that stimulus.
Bats compute the range to a target from the delay of ultrasonic echoes.
A cross-correlation scheme derived from psychophysical experiments with bats can be adopted as a model for pitch perception in humans. Single-unit recordings of neural coincidence detectors in the auditory cortex of bats support this model. Even more than the imaginative speculations about a brave new electronic world, the practical experience of putting together such an edition has convinced us that the new medium will indeed change the practice of our profession, both for good and for ill. Our presentation will summarize the work we have done over the last seventeen years on the biomechanics of trombone performance. We will emphasize the work we have done in the last five years since receiving a grant from the National Science Foundation.