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Across-species differences in pitch perception are consistent with differences in cochlear filtering.
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- Distribution of multiunit pitch responses recorded intracranially from human auditory cortex.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2023Article
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- Questions and controversies surrounding the perception and neural coding of pitch.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- Rabbits use both spectral and temporal cues to discriminate the fundamental frequency of harmonic complexes with missing fundamentals.Journal of neurophysiology · 2022Article
- Deep neural network models reveal interplay of peripheral coding and stimulus statistics in pitch perception.Nature communications · 2021Article
- Distinct higher-order representations of natural sounds in human and ferret auditory cortex.eLife · 2021Article
- Lemniscal Corticothalamic Feedback in Auditory Scene Analysis.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Review
- Time-dependent discrimination advantages for harmonic sounds suggest efficient coding for memory.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Observational
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- Perceptual fusion of musical notes by native Amazonians suggests universal representations of musical intervals.Nature communications · 2020Article
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- The Perception of Multiple Simultaneous Pitches as a Function of Number of Spectral Channels and Spectral Spread in a Noise-Excited Envelope Vocoder.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2020Article
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Abstract
Pitch perception is critical for recognizing speech, music and animal vocalizations, but its neurobiological basis remains unsettled, in part because of divergent results across species. We investigated whether species-specific differences exist in the cues used to perceive pitch and whether these can be accounted for by differences in the auditory periphery. Ferrets accurately generalized pitch discriminations to untrained stimuli whenever temporal envelope cues were robust in the probe sounds, but not when resolved harmonics were the main available cue. By contrast, human listeners exhibited the opposite pattern of results on an analogous task, consistent with previous studies. Simulated cochlear responses in the two species suggest that differences in the relative salience of the two pitch cues can be attributed to differences in cochlear filter bandwidths. The results support the view that cross-species variation in pitch perception reflects the constraints of estimating a sound's fundamental frequency given species-specific cochlear tuning.
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