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Pitch: Mechanisms Underlying the Pitch of Pure and Complex Tones

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Abstract

It is widely believed that the perception of the pitch of sinusoids depends on a temporal mechanism for low and medium frequencies, and a place mechanism for high frequencies. Data from musical interval and melody perception suggest a transition in mechanism at about 4–5 kHz, while data from frequency discrimination suggest a transition at a higher frequency, around 8 kHz. The detection of frequency modulation may also depend on a temporal mechanism when the modulation frequency is low and the carrier frequency is below about 5 kHz; for high modulation frequencies a place mechanism appears to dominate for all carrier frequencies. The pitch of complex tones also appears to depend on both place and temporal analysis. For complex tones that are filtered to contain only high, unresolved harmonics, pitch may be extracted from the temporal envelope when the harmonics are very high and from the temporal fine structure when the lowest audible harmonic has a rank in the range 9–13.

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My thinking about pitch was strongly influenced by a visit to the Netherlands while I was working on my PhD. I had especially useful discussions with Reinier Plomp, Guido Smoorenburg, Tammo Houtgast, Roel Ritsma, Jan Schouten, Ben Lopez-Cardozo, and Egbert de Boer. I am grateful to all of them for the time that they graciously spent with a then-unknown PhD student.

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Moore, B.C.J. (2014). Pitch: Mechanisms Underlying the Pitch of Pure and Complex Tones. In: Popper, A., Fay, R. (eds) Perspectives on Auditory Research. Springer Handbook of Auditory Research, vol 50. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9102-6_21

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