Subject: Re: human versus spectral resolution From: Pierre Divenyi <pdivenyi@xxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 17:27:05 -0700 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>--=====================_11108046==.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Here is an excellent and much-overlooked paper on the dfdt uncertainty (more Gabor than Heisenberg): Ronken, D. A. (1971). Some effects of bandwidth-duration constraints on frequency discrimination. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 49, 1232-1242. Pierre At 03:03 PM 4/2/2008, you wrote: >Could anyone please direct me to any literature on what are the >comparative limits of : > >1) Time/frequency resolution for digital signal spectral analysis , >as (sort of) governed by Heisenberg's uncertainty principle with >relation to the duration, sampling rate, frequency content and >bandwidth of the sound. > >and > >2) The limits of the ability of the human ear to distinquish between >frequency/pitch and the exact time location of sounds, more or less >the same task as above. > --=====================_11108046==.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" <html> <body> Here is an excellent and much-overlooked paper on the dfdt uncertainty (more Gabor than Heisenberg):<br><br> Ronken, D. A. (1971). Some effects of bandwidth-duration constraints on frequency discrimination. <i>Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 49</i>, 1232-1242.<br><br> Pierre<br><br> At 03:03 PM 4/2/2008, you wrote:<br> <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Could anyone please direct me to any literature on what are the comparative limits of :<br> <br> 1) Time/frequency resolution for digital signal spectral analysis , as (sort of) governed by Heisenberg's uncertainty principle with relation to the duration, sampling rate, frequency content and bandwidth of the sound.<br> <br> and <br> <br> 2) The limits of the ability of the human ear to distinquish between frequency/pitch and the exact time location of sounds, more or less the same task as above.<br> </blockquote></body> </html> --=====================_11108046==.ALT--