Experiments on pitch perception: Implications for music and other processes

Archives of Acoustics

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 475-490

  Houtsma, Adrianus J M ^a  

^a U S ARMY AEROMEDICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Harmonic intervals; Homophony; Low And high order harmonics; Pitch perception; Polyphony

Indexed keywords

SENSORY PERCEPTION; SPEECH PROCESSING;

HARMONIC INTERVALS; HOMOPHONY; PITCH PERCEPTION; POLYPHONY;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

EID: 39649085352     PISSN: 01375075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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