ArticleThe Journal of the Acoustical Society of America2019
Pitch discrimination with mixtures of three concurrent harmonic complexes.
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- Dissociating the neural codes for multiple pitch perception in humans.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Musical note recognition based on the upper adjacent harmonics without the presence of the fundamental frequency.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Pitch discrimination in electric hearing with inconsistent and consistent amplitude-modulation and inter-pulse rate cues.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2023Article
- Training Programs for Improving Speech Perception in Noise: A Review.Journal of audiology & otology · 2023Review
- Human discrimination and modeling of high-frequency complex tones shed light on the neural codes for pitch.PLoS computational biology · 2022Article
- Questions and controversies surrounding the perception and neural coding of pitch.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- An auditory-visual tradeoff in susceptibility to clutter.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Effect of lowest harmonic rank on fundamental-frequency difference limens varies with fundamental frequency.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2020Article
- 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
- Strategies Used by Musicians to Identify Notes' Pitch: Cognitive Bricks and Mental Representations.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Harmonic Cancellation-A Fundamental of Auditory Scene Analysis.Trends in hearingArticle
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Abstract
In natural listening contexts, especially in music, it is common to hear three or more simultaneous pitches, but few empirical or theoretical studies have addressed how this is achieved. Place and pattern-recognition theories of pitch require at least some harmonics to be spectrally resolved for pitch to be extracted, but it is unclear how often such conditions exist when multiple complex tones are presented together. In three behavioral experiments, mixtures of three concurrent complexes were filtered into a single bandpass spectral region, and the relationship between the fundamental frequencies and spectral region was varied in order to manipulate the extent to which harmonics were resolved either before or after mixing. In experiment 1, listeners discriminated major from minor triads (a difference of 1 semitone in one note of the triad). In experiments 2 and 3, listeners compared the pitch of a probe tone with that of a subsequent target, embedded within two other tones. All three experiments demonstrated above-chance performance, even in conditions where the combinations of harmonic components were unlikely to be resolved after mixing, suggesting that fully resolved harmonics may not be necessary to extract the pitch from multiple simultaneous complexes.
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