Pitch perception for mixtures of spectrally overlapping harmonic complex tones

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 257-269

  Micheyl, Christophe ^a   Keebler, Michael V ^a   Oxenham, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND PASS FILTERING; DIFFERENCE LIMEN; DIFFERENT MODES; EXCITATION PATTERN; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; HARMONIC COMPLEX TONES; HARMONIC COMPLEXES; HARMONIC FREQUENCY; PITCH PERCEPTION; SPECTRAL REGION;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

TARGETS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DICHOTIC LISTENING; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; HEARING; HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PITCH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955203833     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3372751     Document Type: Article

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