Neuronal periodicity detection as a basis for the perception of consonance: A mathematical model of tonal fusion

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 2320-2329

  Ebeling, Martin ^a  

^a Peter Cornelius Conservatory of Music   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS; FUSION REACTIONS; LATTICE VIBRATIONS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; MECHANISMS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; PROGRAMMING THEORY; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

AUDITORY NERVES; AUTO-CORRELATION FUNCTIONS; DETECTION MECHANISM; FIRING PATTERNS; IN-LINE; MIDBRAIN; NEURONAL MODELING; PERIODICITY ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGICAL DATA; TIME WINDOWS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COCHLEAR NERVE; HEARING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MUSIC; PERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

COCHLEAR NERVE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MESENCEPHALON; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MUSIC; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PERIODICITY; PITCH PERCEPTION; PRESSURE; TIME PERCEPTION; VIBRATION;

EID: 53949102935     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2968688     Document Type: Article

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