ArticleComparative cognition & behavior reviews2017
Animal Pitch Perception: Melodies and Harmonies.
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- The Neural Reality of Pitch Chroma in Early Infancy.Developmental science · 2025Article
- Male rats emit aversive 44-kHz ultrasonic vocalizations during prolonged Pavlovian fear conditioning.eLife · 2024Article
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- Effects of Memantine on the Auditory Steady-State and Harmonic Responses to 40 Hz Stimulation Across Species.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2024Article
- Evidence for a shared cognitive mechanism underlying relative rhythmic and melodic perception.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- 1/f laws found in non-human music.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Lessons learned in animal acoustic cognition through comparisons with humans.Animal cognition · 2023Review
- Pitch chroma information is processed in addition to pitch height information with more than two pitch-range categories.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2022Article
- Progress without exclusion in the search for an evolutionary basis of music.The Behavioral and brain sciences · 2021Article
- On reappearance and complexity in musical calling.PloS one · 2021Article
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Abstract
Pitch is a percept of sound that is based in part on fundamental frequency. Although pitch can be defined in a way that is clearly separable from other aspects of musical sounds, such as timbre, the perception of pitch is not a simple topic. Despite this, studying pitch separately from other aspects of sound has led to some interesting conclusions about how humans and other animals process acoustic signals. It turns out that pitch perception in humans is based on an assessment of pitch height, pitch chroma, relative pitch, and grouping principles. How pitch is broken down depends largely on the context. Most, if not all, of these principles appear to also be used by other species, but when and how accurately they are used varies across species and context. Studying how other animals compare to humans in their pitch abilities is partially a reevaluation of what we know about humans by considering ourselves in a biological context.
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