Pitch, periodicity, and auditory organization

  • Hartmann W
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Abstract

The perception of pitch forms the basis of musical melody and harmony. It is also among the most precise of all our human senses, and with imagination, this precision can be used experimentally to investigate the functioning of the auditory system. This tutorial presents auditory demonstrations from the zoo of pitch effects: pitch shifts, noise pitch, virtual pitch, dichotic pitch, and the pitches of things that are not there at all. It introduces models of auditory processing, derived from contemporary psychoacoustics and auditory physiology, and tests these models against the experimental effects. It concludes by describing the critical role played by pitch in the important human ability to disentangle overlapping sources of sound.

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Hartmann, W. M. (1996). Pitch, periodicity, and auditory organization. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 100(6), 3491–3502. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.417248

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