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Dominance of missing fundamental versus spectrally cued pitch: individual differences for complex tones with
Remco Renken1, J Esther C Wiersinga-Post, Sonja Tomaskovic
1Department of Biomedical Engineering, Neuroimaging Center, Graduate School for Behavioural and Cognitive Neurosciences, University of Groningen, Antonius Deusinglaan 2, 9713 AV, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Abstract:
In a two-alternative, forced-choice experiment, subjects had to compare the pitches of two sounds, A and B. Each sound was composed of four successive harmonics of a fundamental frequency between 100 to 250 Hz, added in cosine or Schröder phase. The harmonic frequencies of A were lower than those of B; the missing fundamental frequency of A was higher than that of B. The dominance of the missing fundamental versus the spectrally cued pitch--a pitch percept corresponding to spectral components--was measured as a function of nA, the lowest harmonic in A. The pitch percept is dominated by the missing fundamental if the harmonics are resolved (nA<7). If the harmonics become unresolved and are added in Schröder phase, the dominance shifts to a spectrally cued pitch (7
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