Hearing’s salient spectral features can be matched by adjustable Fourier analysis

Evidence

Another strategy makes use of those important features that are selected by our hearing system. Spectral pitch, for example, plays an important role in characterizing music and speech. There are many spectral pitches in musical sounds, some of which are very dominant, others that are of less importance and still others that can almost be ignored. The physical equivalent of spectral pitch percepts are “partial tones”, which can be extracted by a hearing-equivalent spectrum analysis. Such analysis is performed by a modified Fourier transformation which allows adjustment of analysis parameters with regard to the frequency and temporal resolution of the human ear. — Professor Dr.-Ing. Hugo Fastl, Professor Dr.-Ing. Eberhard, Psychoacoustics- Facts and Models, 2020

Categorization

• DEFINE: Explains the spectral-pitch/partial-tone pair as a hearing-relevant feature model.
• XREF: Connects to the auditory scene analysis and harmonic pitch extraction literature. — connects to: Hearing acts as a spectral analyser extracting quantifiable perceptual metrics from sound — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 1572; Auditory spectrum computation begins with FFT then emulates hearing sensitivity via filtering and weighting. — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 1586; The hearing system analyzes complex sounds by linear superposition of component responses — David M. Howard, Jamie Angus, Acoustics and Psychoacoustics, 553