Cents are the standard unit for reporting pitch in psychoacoustic experiments

Evidence

Cents are widely used in discussions of pitch intervals and the results of psychoacoustic experiments involving pitch. Appendix 3 gives an equation for converting frequency ratios to cents and vice versa. — David Howard, Jamie Angus, coustics and Psychoacoustics, 1065

Categorization

  • XREF: Connects to the shared ground of psychoacoustic experimental work and how intervals are most naturally reported. — connects to: The measurement scale chosen for averaging radically affects psychoacoustic data summaries

Broader Connections