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Subjective Phase Effects and Combination Tones

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Facts and Models in Hearing

Part of the book series: Communication and Cybernetics ((COMMUNICATION,volume 8))

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One of the problems in psychoacoustics is the question which temporal aspects of a signal are coded and contribute to the sensation. For example, the sensation of “roughness” seems to correspond to envelope detection (Terhardt, 1968). Another subjective aspect of sound which is fairly often ascribed to time-structure detection is the “residuepitch” or “periodicity pitch” (Schouten et al., 1962). For three-component signals, Mathes and Miller (1947), de Boer (1956) and Goldstein (1967a) have reported changes in the prominence of residue pitch, as well as timbre and roughness as the time structure changed while the power spectrum remained constant.

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Buunen, T.J.F., Bilsen, F.A. (1974). Subjective Phase Effects and Combination Tones. In: Zwicker, E., Terhardt, E. (eds) Facts and Models in Hearing. Communication and Cybernetics, vol 8. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-65902-7_45

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