NON-SPECTRAL PITCH
NON-SPECTRAL PITCH
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DOI:
10.1121/1.381166
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发表时间:
1976-01-01
影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
VIEMEISTER, NF
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作者:
BURNS, EM;VIEMEISTER, NF
The spectrum of amplitude-modulated wide-band noise was invariant with changes in modulation frequency, and consequently such waveforms cannot convey melodic information by spectral changes. Sinusoidally amplitude-modulated wide-band noise did have pitchlike properties. Simple melodies can be identified when the notes correspond to different modulation frequencies. Musically trained observers [human] could immediately recognize melodic musical intervals composed of such waveforms. The pitchlike properties of modulated noise were maintained when the modulated noise was bandpass filtered and when an unmodulated band-reject masker was added to the bandpass noise. Presumably the perception of pitch elicited by modulated noise was based upon temporal information in the envelope of the waveform. This temporal pitch was less salient than the pitch elicited by pure tones. Temporal pitch could be elicited only over a restricted range of modulation frequencies. The upper limit (approximately 850-1000 Hz) appears to reflect the inability of the auditory system to follow rapid temporal changes.