Low-frequency harmonic stimuli elicit neural temporal-structure coding absent at high frequencies

Evidence

The low-frequency stimulus was a spectrally shaped multicomponent complex (SSMC), which was a harmonic complex with a fundamental frequency (F 0 ) of 100 Hz. The spectral envelope had a flat passband and sloping edges (5×F 0 centered at 1100 Hz).The overall level of the complex was 54 dB SPL. Threshold equalizing noise, extending from 125 to 15,000 Hz, was added. — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 1041

Categorization

• DEFINE: Describes the SSMC stimulus design used to probe low-frequency temporal processing.