Pitch strength decreases as F0 and harmonic resolution increase in complex tones composed exclusively of high harmonics

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2670-2679

  Timothy Ives, D ^a   Patterson, Roy D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

SEMITONES; TIME-INTERVAL RESOLUTION;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COCHLEAR NERVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND INTENSITY; SOUND LEVEL MEASUREMENT;

AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BASILAR ARTERY; COCHLEA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEARING; HUMANS; MUSIC; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PITCH PERCEPTION; SOUND;

EID: 43549099046     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2890737     Document Type: Article

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