The Mel Scale's disqualifying bias and a consistency of pitch-difference equisections in 1956 with equal cochlear distances and equal frequency ratios

Hearing Research

Volumn 103, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 199-224

  Greenwood, Donald D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

cochlear map; critical bandwidth; Mel Scale; musical interval; pitch

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COCHLEA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031036983     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-5955(96)00175-X     Document Type: Article

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