Pitch discrimination of diotic and dichotic tone complexes: Harmonic resolvability or harmonic number?

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 113, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 3323-3334

  Bernstein, Joshua G ^a,b   Oxenham, Andrew J ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; FREQUENCIES; HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

DICHOTIC TONE COMPLEXES;

AUDITION;

ACOUSTICS;

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYZER; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSICIAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND PRESSURE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 0038621657     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1572146     Document Type: Article

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