Spectral first moment

[Pierre Divenyi <pdivenyi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>> (Divenyi:) A psychophysicist would be extremely
>> indebted to anyone coming out with a scale along which delta-first
moments,
>> or cepstral coefficients of a certain order, would be equally (or at least
>> comparably) discriminable.

>(McAdams:) Ah but then we open up the can of worms about relations between
>Fechnerian, Stevensian (and perhaps any number of other) scales!! Why
>doesn't a scale derived from frequency jnds look like a mel scale and
>neither look like the musical pitch scale?

A good point!...

Pierre Divenyi



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