On the possibility of a place code for the low pitch of high-frequency complex tones

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 132, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 3883-3895

  Santurette, Sébastien ^a   Dau, Torsten ^a   Oxenham, Andrew J ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERNS; AUDITORY NERVES; COMPLEX TONES; FINE STRUCTURES; HARMONIC FREQUENCY; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS; INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES; PERIPHERAL INTERACTIONS; PHASE-LOCKING; POTENTIAL BENEFITS; SINGLE-CHANNEL; TEMPORAL CODING; TEMPORAL THEORY; UNRESOLVED HARMONICS;

ACOUSTICS; PHYSICS;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DICHOTIC LISTENING; HEARING; HUMAN; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SOUND DETECTION; TIME; TIME PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CUES; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH PERCEPTION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS; TIME PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870876955     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4764897     Document Type: Article

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