Understanding pitch perception as a hierarchical process with top-down modulation

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Balaguer Ballester, Emili ^a,b   Clark, Nicholas R ^c   Coath, Martin ^a   Krumbholz, Katrin ^c   Denham, Susan L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c MRC INSTITUTE OF HEARING RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AUDITORY SYSTEMS; HIERARCHICAL PROCESS; IMPORTANT FEATURES; NATURAL SOUNDS; PITCH PERCEPTION; PITCH PROCESSING; SYSTEM USE; TEMPORAL DYNAMICS; TIME-SCALES; TOPDOWN;

TIME MEASUREMENT;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HEARING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; HUMAN; MUSIC; SPEECH; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEEDBACK; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MUSIC; SPEECH;

EID: 63549120758     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000301     Document Type: Article

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