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John Michael Harrison
1915 • 2007
John Michael Harrison, a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, passed away on 30 November 2007 at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts. He was born in London, England, and completed under- graduate studies at the Institution for Electrical Engineers in London before pur- suing graduate studies in psychology at University College, London. There he completed the Postgraduate Academic Diploma in 1947. From 1947 until his pass- ing, he was a member of the Department of Psychology at Boston University, advanc- ing from instructor to Professor Emeritus. In 2003, he was named a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America in recogni- tion of his broad contributions to acousti- cal research, including neuroanatomy, psy- chology, and musical acoustics.
Throughout his career, his work focused on behavioral studies of hearing, including studies of sound localization, intensity discrimination, and psychophysical methods that exploited different physical attributes of acoustic stimuli. He was named a Fellow of the American Psychological Association in 1970 and received their award for outstanding contributions to behavioral research in 2000. He was also
involved in seminal studies of the neu- roanatomy and physiology of the auditory system with his students, Martin Feldman, Bruce Warr, Ronald Irving, and Chris West. Much of his anatomical work was comparative in nature and included studies of species as diverse as apes, monkeys, dol- phins, bats, and cats. His work led to a bet- ter understanding of the relationship between the neural organization of the auditory pathways and the behavioral abil- ities of different species. His extensive anatomical studies of the auditory brain- stem are preserved as the Harrison Slide Collection at the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Washington, D.C.
His father, G. Donald Harrison, was a renowned organ builder who established the “American Classic” design. Inspired by
this family history, J. Michael Harrison’s research in recent years included quantitative studies of organ acoustics and psychological modeling of the perception of organ sounds in acoustic spaces, resulting in a series of papers published in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. In addition, he served as a member of the ASA Technical Committee on Musical Acoustics from 2000-2003.
Photo credit: Boston University “spectrum,” 1978, with permission of Boston University Bridge Photo Services.
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