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No Effect of Musical Training on Frequency Selectivity Estimated Using Three Methods.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.
- Normative Data and Repeatability of a 4-kHz Pure-Tone Psychoacoustic Tuning Curve Using a Single Clinical Audiometer.Journal of audiology & otology · 2026Article
- Association between hearing loss but not age and mistuning perception in music.Hearing research · 2025Article
- Predicting speech-in-noise ability in normal and impaired hearing based on auditory cognitive measures.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Pitch discrimination is better for synthetic timbre than natural musical instrument timbres despite familiarity.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2022Article
- A specific relationship between musical sophistication and auditory working memory.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Effect of Musical Experience on Cochlear Frequency Resolution: An Estimation of PTCs, DLF and SOAEs.The journal of international advanced otology · 2021Article
- The role of the medial olivocochlear reflex in psychophysical masking and intensity resolution in humans: a review.Journal of neurophysiology · 2021Review
- No Influence of Musicianship on the Effect of Contralateral Stimulation on Frequency Selectivity.Trends in hearingArticle
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Abstract
It is widely believed that the frequency selectivity of the auditory system is largely determined by processes occurring in the cochlea. If so, musical training would not be expected to influence frequency selectivity. Consistent with this, auditory filter shapes for low center frequencies do not differ for musicians and nonmusicians. However, it has been reported that psychophysical tuning curves (PTCs) at 4000 Hz were sharper for musicians than for nonmusicians. This study explored the origin of the discrepancy across studies. Frequency selectivity was estimated for musicians and nonmusicians using three methods: fast PTCs with a masker that swept in frequency, "traditional" PTCs obtained using several fixed masker center frequencies, and the notched-noise method. The signal frequency was 4000 Hz. The data were fitted assuming that each side of the auditory filter had the shape of a rounded-exponential function. The sharpness of the auditory filters, estimated as the Q
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