Above 500 Hz, critical-band rate grows logarithmically with frequency, roughly 20 percent per Bark.
Evidence
A logarithmic frequency scale is used in part (c) as the abscissa. The straight broken line indicates that a logarithmic relation between criticalband rate and frequency is a very useful approximation for frequencies above 500 Hz. This approximation leads to the relation between increments in Bark (or increments of 100 mel) to a relative frequency change of about 20%. — Professor Dr.-Ing. Hugo Fastl, Professor Dr.-Ing. Eberhard, Psychoacoustics- Facts and Models, 940
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
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