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Re: Minimum duration required in a sinusoid to hear pitch
I would like to know if there exists some research done about the
minimum duration that a sinusoid has to have in order to hear pitch.
Any reference to related literature will be highly appreciated.
as far as I know there are two works but the timbre was complex:
Robinson, K.L. and Patterson, R.D. (1995) "The duration required to identify
the instrument, the octave, or the pitch-chroma of a musical note," Music
Perception 13, 1-15.
Robinson, K.L. and Patterson, R.D. (1995) "The stimulus duration required to
identify vowels, their octave, and their pitch-chroma," J. Acoust. Soc.
Am. 98,
1858-1865.
The interesting result is that, when compared to vision, the auditory system
extracts first complex features (i.e. timbre) and later simple features (i.e.
octave and chroma). It seems that the visual system operates in the opposite
way (e.g. Marr, 1982): first simple features then complex features.
I hope this helps,
m
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