Dichotic split-harmonic presentation enables pitch via resolvability that temporal models cannot capture.

Evidence

For example, experiment 2c in Oxenham et al. ( 2011 ) reports some pitch perception using dichotic stimulations with even-numbered harmonics presented on the right ear and odd-numbered harmonics presented to the left ear. This experimental manipulation increases the resolvability of the signals and prevents our simulation to extract any temporal periodicities and then to predict some pitch perception. — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 4663

Categorization

• XREF: The dichotic even/odd harmonic split is a classic result in the place-versus-temporal coding debate for pitch.
• QUESTION: Worth understanding how splitting harmonics across ears increases resolvability — mechanism is not intuitive and would deepen the pitch-model picture.