ArticleThe European journal of neuroscience2022
A critical analysis of Lin et al.'s (2021) failure to observe forward entrainment in pitch discrimination.
Article in The European journal of neuroscience, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Forward entrainment: Psychophysics, neural correlates, and function.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2023Review
- Informational Masking in Aging and Brain-lesioned Individuals.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2023Article
- Confirming an antiphasic bicyclic pattern of forward entrainment in signal detection: A reanalysis of Sun et al. (2021).The European journal of neuroscience · 2022Article
- A critical analysis of Lin et al.'s (2021) failure to observe forward entrainment in pitch discrimination.The European journal of neuroscience · 2022Article
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Forward entrainment refers to that part of the entrainment process that outlasts the entraining stimulus. Several studies have demonstrated psychophysical forward entrainment in a pitch-discrimination task. In a recent paper, Lin et al. (2021) challenged these findings by demonstrating that a sequence of 4 entraining pure tones does not affect the ability to determine whether a frequency modulated pulse, presented after termination of the entraining sequence, has swept up or down in frequency. They concluded that rhythmic sequences do not facilitate pitch discrimination. Here, we describe several methodological and stimulus design flaws in Lin et al.'s study that may explain their failure to observe forward entrainment in pitch discrimination.
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