Musically trained listeners judge ZT musical intervals accurately despite missing phase locking.
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)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Experienced listeners preserve octave judgment precision at 5 kHz where phase locking degrades.; Zwicker tones support accurate musical interval matching like pure tones — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 5392; Weak musical pitch perception can persist without peripheral phase locking. — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 5420 (+4 more)
Related
- Experienced listeners preserve octave judgment precision at 5 kHz where phase locking degrades. (similarity 0.92)
- Weak musical pitch perception can persist without peripheral phase locking. (similarity 0.91)
- Zwicker tones support accurate musical interval matching like pure tones (similarity 0.90)
- A weak musical pitch can exist without peripheral phase locking. (similarity 0.90)
- Simulation refractory periods do not capture real auditory phase-locking constraints (similarity 0.88)
- Musically trained listeners can judge pitch intervals even above the phase-locking limit (similarity 0.86)
- Zwicker tone interval matches are as reliable as those for high-frequency pure tones (similarity 0.86)
- Zwicker tones produce pitch without peripheral phase locking. (similarity 0.86)
- Zwicker-tone interval adjustments are as accurate as pure-tone adjustments (similarity 0.85)
- Zwicker tones matched in intervals nearly as reliably as pure tones. (similarity 0.85)
- Zwicker tone interval settings are slightly more variable than pure-tone matches. (similarity 0.85)
- Auditory nerve phase locking fails at high frequencies, leaving only the place code (similarity 0.84)
- Pitch of Zwicker tones is less precisely encoded than pure tones (similarity 0.84)
- Zwicker-tone pitch matches are more variable than pure-tone matches (similarity 0.83)
- Zwicker tones produce no correlate in cochlear mechanical activity (similarity 0.82)
Broader Connections
- Zwicker tones matched in intervals nearly as reliably as pure tones.
#corroborates(0.95) - Weak musical pitch perception can persist without peripheral phase locking.
#corroborates(0.90) — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 5420 - Experienced listeners preserve octave judgment precision at 5 kHz where phase locking degrades.
#corroborates(0.85) - Zwicker tones produce pitch without peripheral phase locking.
#corroborates(0.85) — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 5392 - Zwicker tones support accurate musical interval matching like pure tones
#corroborates(0.80) — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 5392 - Simulation refractory periods do not capture real auditory phase-locking constraints
#complicates(0.75) - Interval-adjustment precision declines sharply at 10 kHz
#qualifies(0.70)