The perception of music depends on many culture-specific factors, but is also constrained by
properties of the auditory system. This has been best characterized for those aspects of …

Publisher Summary The chapter discusses the possible origins and bases of scales
including those aspects of scales that are universal across musical cultures. It also …

Temporal codes and neural temporal processing architectures (neural timing nets) that
potentially subserve perception of pitch and rhythm are discussed. We address 1) properties …

This paper suggests an explanation for listeners' greater tolerance to positive than negative
mistuning of the higher tone within an octave pair. It hypothesizes a neural circuit tuned to …

Musicians say that the pitches of tones with a frequency ratio of 2: 1 (one octave) have a
distinctive affinity, even if the tones do not have common spectral components. It has been …

Octave equivalence describes the perceived similarity of notes separated by an octave or a
doubling in frequency. In humans, octave equivalence perception is used in vocal learning …

To test the effects of octave and timbre on tuning accuracy, four stimuli—B-flat 4 sounded by
flute, oboe, and clarinet and B-flat 2 sounded by tuba—functioned as reference pitches for …

This chapter addresses sensation and perception of pitch mainly from a functional
perspective. Anatomical and physiological facts concerning the auditory pathway are …

To perceptually separate concurrent complex sounds, normally hearing listeners
simultaneously combine information across a wide range of frequency components. Three …

This dissertation investigated the etiology of absolute pitch. People with good relative pitch
are able to reproduce or recognize pitches by name, but only after being given a starting …