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Representations of the pitch of complex tones in the auditory nerve

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Cedolin, L., Delgutte, B. (2005). Representations of the pitch of complex tones in the auditory nerve. In: Pressnitzer, D., de Cheveigné, A., McAdams, S., Collet, L. (eds) Auditory Signal Processing. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-27045-0_23

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