A nerve-fiber threshold near 0.5 yields the most reliable pitch periodicity estimates
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- Absolute pitch precision is roughly ten times that of trained relative-pitch listeners (similarity 0.85)
- Nerve firing intervals are integer multiples of the stimulus period (similarity 0.82)
- Neuronal firing thresholds shape which pitch periodicities a system can detect (similarity 0.82)
- Pitch is perceived from firing intervals even when nerves skip cycles (similarity 0.80)
- A strictly periodic tone can still be perceived as two distinct notes (similarity 0.79)
- Hearing thresholds vary individually but share a common perceptual order (similarity 0.79)
- The brainstem may convert interspike intervals directly into firing rates (similarity 0.79)
- Hard reeds fix pitch, freeing resonators to shape only harmonics (similarity 0.79)
- Vibrato produces tremolo when harmonics sweep across resonant peaks (similarity 0.78)
- Pitch can only be measured relative, not absolutely (similarity 0.78)
- Pitch can be coded by monotonic firing rate instead of tuned delay circuits (similarity 0.78)
- Simulated spike trains encode pitch via envelope-fine-structure interaction periodicities (similarity 0.78)
- A pianoforte with raised dampers can physically re-echo sung vowels via sympathetic resonance (similarity 0.78)