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Observers attempted to detect the presence of a pitch dirference between two successive tones. The percentage of correct judgments was equivalent for tones separated by 95, 4.5, and 8.9 sec. There was a general increase in reports of a pitch difference with increased intertone interval, which is interpreted as arising from hypothesized shifts in the neural locus of the first stimulus during the intertone interval.
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Alken, E.G., Lau, A.W. Memory for the pitch of a tone. Perception & Psychophysics 1, 231–233 (1966). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03207385
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03207385