Pitch is determined by naturally occurring periodic sounds

Hearing Research

Volumn 194, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 31-46

  Schwartz, David A ^a   Purves, Dale ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory; Perception; Pitch; Probability; Psychoacoustics; Speech

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; DATA BASE; ENERGY RESOURCE; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PERIODICITY; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SOUND; SPEECH;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; PERIODICITY; PITCH PERCEPTION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS;

EID: 3343010628     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2004.01.019     Document Type: Article

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