Early processing of pitch in the human auditory system

K Alho, S Grimm, S Mateo‐León… - European Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Middle‐latency auditory evoked potentials, indicating early cortical processing, elicited by
pitch changes and repetitions in pure tones and by complex tones with a missing …

A dual mechanism for sound pitch perception: new evidence from brain electrophysiology

R Ragot, S Crottaz - Neuroreport, 1998 - journals.lww.com
THE N1 component of the auditory brain evoked potential was used as a direct
electrophysiological index, to study how the perception of pitch for complex periodic tones …

Two separate codes for missing-fundamental pitch in the human auditory cortex

I Winkler, M Tervaniemi, R Näätänen - The Journal of the Acoustical …, 1997 - pubs.aip.org
Two auditory event-related potential components, the supratemporal N1 and the mismatch
negativity (MMN), index traces encoding the missing-fundamental pitch. The present results …

Neural temporal coding of low pitch. I. Human frequency-following responses to complex tones

S Greenberg, JT Marsh, WS Brown, JC Smith - Hearing research, 1987 - Elsevier
The neural basis of low pitch was investigated in the present study by recording a brainstem
potential from the scalp of human subjects during presentation of complex tones which …

Human auditory-cortex mechanisms of preattentive sound discrimination

JD Kropotov, K Alho, R Näätänen, VA Ponomarev… - Neuroscience …, 2000 - Elsevier
Intracranial event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded in neurological patients to
infrequent higher-pitch 'deviant'tones and to frequent 'standard'tones when they occurred, in …

Intracerebral evoked potentials in pitch perception reveal a functional asymmetry of the human auditory cortex

C LIÉGEOIS‐CHAUVEL, K Giraud… - Annals of the New …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
One acoustic feature that plays an important role in pitch perception is frequency. Studies on
the processing of frequency in the human and animal brain have shown that the auditory …

Auditory evoked potentials to abrupt pitch and timbre change of complex tones: electrophysiological evidence ofstreaming'?

SJ Jones, O Longe, MV Pato - Electroencephalography and Clinical …, 1998 - Elsevier
Examination of the cortical auditory evoked potentials to complex tones changing in pitch
and timbre suggests a useful new method for investigating higher auditory processes, in …

Cortical processing of complex tone stimuli: mismatch negativity at the end of a period of rapid pitch modulation

MV Pato, SJ Jones - Cognitive brain research, 1999 - Elsevier
In this study, synthesised instrumental tones were used to examine human auditory cortical
processes engaged at the end of a period of rapid pitch modulation. It was previously [SJ …

Effects of musical training on the early auditory cortical representation of pitch transitions as indexed by change‐N 1

K Itoh, Y Okumiya‐Kanke, Y Nakayama… - European Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The effects of musical training on the early auditory cortical response to pitch transitions in
music were investigated by use of the change‐N 1 component of auditory event‐related …

Neural activity associated with binaural processes for the perceptual segregation of pitch

BW Johnson, M Hautus, WC Clapp - Clinical Neurophysiology, 2003 - Elsevier
Objective: We measured late cortical potentials in a psychophysical procedure for binaural
unmasking of a dichotically-embedded pitch. Methods: Late-latency auditory evoked …