Subject: Minimum duration required in a sinusoid to hear pitch From: "Iftikhar Riaz (Lance) Nizami" <Nizamii2@xxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 19:26:11 EST-------------------------------1142468771 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Regarding Arturo Camacho's question about the minimum duration required in a sinusoid to hear pitch: by "pitch", I take to mean any sense of tonality at all. If so, the references are: Burck, W., Kotowski, P., and Lichte, H. (1935). Die lautstarke von knacken, gerauschen und tonen. Elektrische Nachrichten-Technik 12, 326-333. (in German, but understandable with some educated guesswork) Bentzen, O. (1950). A new apparatus for producing short tones, and some experiments performed with it. Acta Laryngologica Supplementum 95, 116-126. Miskolczy-Fodor, F. (1953). Monaural loudness-balance-test and determination of recruitment-degree with short sound-impulses. Acta Oto-Laryngologica 43, 573-595. Such issues interest me because of my experimental use of ultrashort tone pulses (see papers in JASA) that are often too brief to have tonality. Lance Nizami, PhD Decatur, GA -------------------------------1142468771 Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; charset=3DUS-ASCII"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=3DGENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=3Drole_body style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY:=20= Arial"=20 bottomMargin=3D7 leftMargin=3D7 topMargin=3D7 rightMargin=3D7><FONT id=3Drol= e_document=20 face=3DArial color=3D#000000 size=3D2> <DIV>Regarding Arturo Camacho's question about the minimum duration required= in=20 a sinusoid to hear pitch: by "pitch", I take to mean any sense of tonality a= t=20 all. If so, the references are:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Burck, W., Kotowski, P., and Lichte, H. (1935). Die lautstarke von knac= ken,=20 gerauschen und tonen. Elektrische Nachrichten-Technik 12, 326-333. (in Germa= n,=20 but understandable with some educated guesswork)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Bentzen, O. (1950). A new apparatus for producing short tones, and some= =20 experiments performed with it. Acta Laryngologica Supplementum 95,=20 116-126.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Miskolczy-Fodor, F. (1953). Monaural loudness-balance-test and=20 determination of recruitment-degree with short sound-impulses. Acta=20 Oto-Laryngologica 43, 573-595. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Such issues interest me because of my experimental use of ultrashort to= ne=20 pulses (see papers in JASA) that are often too brief to have tonality.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Lance Nizami, PhD</DIV> <DIV>Decatur, GA</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML> -------------------------------1142468771--