Handedness predicts which ear listeners hear high tones in

Evidence

With complex tones, the effect is less well defined; Rossing (2001) suggests around 17 cents (0.17 of a semitone) for an intensity change between 65 dBSPL and 95 dBSPL. Rossing gives two suggestions as to where this effect could have musical consequences: (i) he cites Parkin (1974) to note that this pitch shift phenomenon is apparent when listening in a highly reverberant building to the release of a final loud organ chord that appears to sharpen as the sound level diminishes, and (ii) he suggests that the pitch shift observed for sounds with varying rates of waveform amplitude change, while f0 is kept constant, should be “taken into account when dealing with percussion instruments.” — David M. Howard, Jamie Angus, Acoustics and Psychoacoustics, 921 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Perceived pitch shifts measurably with loudness in frequency-dependent directions — David M. Howard, Jamie Angus, Acoustics and Psychoacoustics, 921; Musicians hear higher-pitched parts with their right ear and lower parts with their left

Broader Connections

• Perceived pitch shifts measurably with loudness in frequency-dependent directions #complicates (0.75) — David M. Howard, Jamie Angus, Acoustics and Psychoacoustics, 921