Deep neural network models reveal interplay of peripheral coding and stimulus statistics in pitch perception

MR Saddler, R Gonzalez, JH McDermott - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Perception is thought to be shaped by the environments for which organisms are optimized.
These influences are difficult to test in biological organisms but may be revealed by machine …

Questions and controversies surrounding the perception and neural coding of pitch

AJ Oxenham - Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Pitch is a fundamental aspect of auditory perception that plays an important role in our ability
to understand speech, appreciate music, and attend to one sound while ignoring others. The …

Pitch perception at very high frequencies: On psychometric functions and integration of frequency information

HE Gockel, BCJ Moore, RP Carlyon - The Journal of the Acoustical …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Lau et al.[J. Neurosci. 37, 9013–9021 (2017)] showed that discrimination of the fundamental
frequency (F0) of complex tones with components in a high-frequency region was better …

Effect of diotic versus dichotic presentation on the pitch perception of tone complexes at medium and very high frequencies

HE Gockel, RP Carlyon - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Difference limens for fundamental frequency (F0), F0DLs, are usually small for complex
tones containing low harmonics that are resolved in the auditory periphery, but worsen when …

Human discrimination and modeling of high-frequency complex tones shed light on the neural codes for pitch

DR Guest, AJ Oxenham - PLoS computational biology, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Accurate pitch perception of harmonic complex tones is widely believed to rely on temporal
fine structure information conveyed by the precise phase-locked responses of auditory …

Rabbits use both spectral and temporal cues to discriminate the fundamental frequency of harmonic complexes with missing fundamentals

JD Wagner, A Gelman, KE Hancock… - Journal of …, 2022 - journals.physiology.org
The pitch of harmonic complex tones (HCTs) common in speech, music, and animal
vocalizations plays a key role in the perceptual organization of sound. Unraveling the neural …

[HTML][HTML] Pitch perception in school-aged children: Pure tones, resolved and unresolved harmonics

J Fung, KL Whiteford, AH Mehta, BK Lau - JASA Express Letters, 2025 - pubs.aip.org
Pitch perception affects children's ability to perceive speech, appreciate music, and learn in
noisy environments, such as their classrooms. Here, we investigated pitch perception for …

No interaction between fundamental-frequency differences and spectral region when perceiving speech in a speech background

SMK Madsen, T Dau, AJ Oxenham - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Differences in fundamental frequency (F0) or pitch between competing voices facilitate our
ability to segregate a target voice from interferers, thereby enhancing speech intelligibility …

The lower limit of pitch perception for pure tones and low-frequency complex sounds

C Jurado, M Larrea, BCJ Moore - Archives of Acoustics, 2021 - acoustics.ippt.gov.pl
The lower limit of pitch (LLP) perception was explored for pure tones, sinusoidally amplitude-
modulated (SAM) tones with a carrier frequency of 125 Hz, and trains of 125-Hz tone pips …

Task-optimized models of human hearing link perception and neural coding

MR Saddler - 2024 - dspace.mit.edu
Hearing allows organisms to derive information about the world from sound. The ears
convert pressure waves into patterns of neural activity which the brain can use to make …