Experienced listeners preserve octave judgment precision at 5 kHz where phase locking degrades.

Evidence

The results showed that, on average, subjects selected similar frequencies in a musical interval adjustment task irrespective of whether the reference tone was a ZT or an equally salient pure tone. The adjusted frequencies were slightly flat in both cases. This might partly result from subjects’ bias towards a “just scale” with musical intervals corresponding to integer ratios of 6/5 and 3/2 for the minor third and the perfect fifth, respectively. If this was the only underlying reason, the “bias” should have been larger for the minor third than for the perfect fifth, which was not observed. The SDs of the musical interval adjustments were only slightly larger (a factor of 1.1–2.2) for the ZTs than for the PTs, with no increase in listening time. Thus, overall the results suggest that a weak musical pitch can exist in the absence of peripheral phase locking. — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 5420 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

For the low-frequency stimulus, the listeners were required to detect a common upward frequency shift (Δf Hz) imposed on the individual components of the SSMC with the spectral envelope remaining unchanged (Moore and Sek 2009 ). It was assumed that the listeners based their judgments on pitch changes, reflecting the temporal fine structure encoded as the pattern of neural phase locking. — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 1043 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Musically trained listeners judge ZT musical intervals accurately despite missing phase locking.; Weak musical pitch perception can persist without peripheral phase locking. — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 5420; Low-frequency pitch judgments reflect temporal fine structure via neural phase locking — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 1043

Related

• Musically trained listeners judge ZT musical intervals accurately despite missing phase locking. (similarity 0.92)
• Musically trained listeners can judge pitch intervals even above the phase-locking limit (similarity 0.90)
• Weak musical pitch perception can persist without peripheral phase locking. (similarity 0.88)
• Low-frequency pitch judgments reflect temporal fine structure via neural phase locking (similarity 0.87)
• A weak musical pitch can exist without peripheral phase locking. (similarity 0.87)
• Auditory nerve phase locking fails at high frequencies, leaving only the place code (similarity 0.87)
• Simulation refractory periods do not capture real auditory phase-locking constraints (similarity 0.86)
• Phase-locked neural timing underlies musical pitch and is limited above 4-5 kHz. (similarity 0.84)
• Phase-locking limits matter far less when envelope-fine-structure interaction encodes pitch (similarity 0.84)
• Phase locking fails above 5 kHz, so high-pitch perception relies on place theory (similarity 0.84)
• Phase invariance of pitch might arise from some neurons always entracking (similarity 0.83)
• High-frequency pitch imprecision reflects unfamiliarity and place coding, not phase locking alone (similarity 0.83)
• Complex tones above 6 kHz retain musical pitch while pure tones do not. (similarity 0.81)
• Entrained cortical oscillations modulate perception via phase alignment (similarity 0.81)
• Frequency difference limens index temporal fine structure processing at low and medium frequencies. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Weak musical pitch perception can persist without peripheral phase locking. #corroborates (0.90) — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 5420
• Low-frequency pitch judgments reflect temporal fine structure via neural phase locking #contradicts (0.75) — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 1043