[Foreword]

Kaoru Ashihara, Akira Nishimura, Takayuki Arai

[Invited review]

• Phonemic Restoration : The brain creates missing speech sounds
  Makio Kashino
• Demonstrations of the gap transfer illusion
  Yoshitaka Nakajima
• Perception of noise vocoded speech sounds: Sentences, words,
  accents and melodies
  Hiroshi Riquimaroux
• Combination tone: Absent but audible component
  Kaoru Ashihara
• Interaction between auditory and visual information in conveyance
  of players' intentions
  Kengo Ohgushi
• Individualization of Head-Related Transfer Functions with tournament
  style listening test: Listening with other's ears
  Yukio Iwaya
• Demonstrations for education in acoustics in Japan
  Takayuki Arai, Fumiaki Satoh, Akira Nishimura, Kanako Ueno,
  Koichi Yoshihisa
• STRAIGHT: Exploitation of the other aspect of VOCODER: Perceptually
  isomorphic decomposition of speech sounds
  Hideki Kawahara