Experiments on tonal residues of short duration

✍ Scribed by P.J. Metters; R.P. Williams

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1973
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 310 KB
• Volume: 26
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0022-460X
• DOI: 10.1016/s0022-460x(73)80198-1

✦ Synopsis

Psychoacoustie experiments on the pitch of residues from three-tone complexes of short duration are reported. The pitch depressions appear to be independent of which three adjacent harmonics of a given fundamental are sounded. The uncertainty with which pitch can be estimated is very little larger than for pure tones of the same fundamental frequency provided there are more than four complete cycles of the waveform present. Below this duration, however, the uncertainty goes up rapidly. There is pitch/intensity variation for a duration of less than about 35 ms.