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Have a look at van den Brink’s chapter on binaural diplacusis and tone perception in Plomp and Smoorenburg’s 1970 book “Frequency analysis and periodicity detection
in hearing.” He also had some hard to locate papers on Acta Acustica Professor Andrew Faulkner Research Department of Speech Hearing and Phonetic Sciences UCL (University College London) Rm 314, Chandler House, 2 Wakefield St London WC1N 1PF tel 44 (0)20 7679 4075 (direct) Internal tel 24075 Fax: +44 (0)20 7679 4238
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https://www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/people/profiles/academic-staff/andy-faulkner Soundcloud music:
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On Behalf Of Leon van Noorden Dear Jan, perhaps this helps: Regards, Leon van Noorden On 29 Jun 2015, at 15:44, Jan Schnupp <jan.schnupp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dear List, I have had a conversation with a musically keen retired physicist who assured me that when he holds up a tuning fork to one ear he hears the pitch of the tuning fork about a semitone lower than at the other ear. I had to say that I found
that surprising. We always assume that there has to be a good alignment of frequency channels going into the binaural centers of the brainstem for example, and much effort is invested in trying to improve "inter-aural pitch matching" for cochlear implant patients.
But I have to admit I know of no formal studies that have actually measured how good inter-aural pitch matching would be for normally hearing subjects, and whether a difference of a semitone (after all, only a few % in absolute terms) is absurdly large or
within the expected human variability. Would any of you know of any papers that have looked at this? Best, Jan -- Prof Jan Schnupp |