Brief tone durations severely impair frequency discrimination

Evidence

Each series contains four tone pairs of different duration and frequency difference: First 500 ms and 10 ms at the smaller frequency difference, and then 10 ms and 500 ms at the larger frequency difference. The following frequencies are used: 2000 Hz, 2010 Hz, 2040 Hz; 500 Hz, 505 Hz, 525 Hz. For example, a frequency difference of 10 Hz between 2000 Hz and 2010 Hz can be discriminated at 500 ms (1) but not at 10 ms (2). On the other hand, a frequency difference of 25 Hz between 500 Hz and 525 Hz can hardly be discriminated at 10 ms (7) but is clearly audible at 500 ms (8). — Professor Dr.-Ing. Hugo Fastl, Professor Dr.-Ing. Eberhard, Psychoacoustics- Facts and Models, 3313

Categorization

• XREF: Ties to duration-dependent auditory spectral resolution; relevant to pitch perception models. — connects to: Frequency discrimination stems from steep filter slopes plus 1 dB level sensitivity — Professor Dr.-Ing. Hugo Fastl, Professor Dr.-Ing. Eberhard, Psychoacoustics- Facts and Models, 1143; Speech discrimination requires intact frequency resolution; Pitch perception requires a tone lasting at least two signal periods — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 1088 (+2 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Professor Dr.-Ing. Hugo Fastl, Professor Dr.-Ing. Eberhard, Psychoacoustics- Facts and Models, 3313

Broader Connections

• Pitch perception requires a tone lasting at least two signal periods #corroborates (0.85) — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 1088