The lower limit of melodic pitch

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 109, Issue 5 I, 2001, Pages 2074-2084

  Pressnitzer, Daniel ^a,b   Patterson, Roy D ^a   Krumbholz, Katrin ^a  

^a Centre for the Neural Basis of Hearing   (United Kingdom)

^b IRCAM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPONENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; SPEECH; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

HARMONIC TONES;

ACOUSTICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MUSIC; NORMAL HUMAN; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND INTENSITY;

EID: 0035031524     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1359797     Document Type: Article

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