Pitch-interval discrimination and musical expertise: Is the semitone a perceptual boundary?

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 984-993

  Mary Zarate, Jean ^a   Ritson, Caroline R ^a   Poeppel, David ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PROCESSING; AUDITORY PROCESSING; PITCH CHANGES; PSYCHOPHYSICAL EXPERIMENTS;

ACOUSTICS; PHYSICS;

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; MUSIC; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERIODICITY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; TIME; TIME PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDIOMETRY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSIC; PERIODICITY; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 84865063690     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4733535     Document Type: Article

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