Re: About importance of "phase" in sound recognition (Laszlo Toth )


Subject: Re: About importance of "phase" in sound recognition
From:    Laszlo Toth  <tothl@xxxxxxxx>
Date:    Fri, 8 Oct 2010 14:56:58 +0200
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On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Kevin Austin wrote: > When I first learned that phase was not important to hearing, it was in > a specific context. It was, (for example) with a sawtooth wave, invert > it. It will sound the same, even though it is 180° out of phase. > Therefore [?] the phase of the signal can be shifted by 180° (or > inverted), and the ear is insensitive to this. Interestingly, a parallel thread is running on the music-dsp mailing list just about the same topic. You can find the archive here: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/music-dsp/2010-October.txt In particular, Sampo Syreeni wrote: "But perhaps the most shocking discovery here is that with sufficiently large test sets, 180 degree phase differences can be distinguished at a statistically significant level, monaurally only. That I think was what lead to the periodicity/rectifier models of pitch perception in the first place, long before e.g. missing fundamental kind of phenomena were propertly attributed to the nonlinearity of the cochlear cilia."


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