Ohm’s acoustical law held that a pitch requires physical power at that frequency

Evidence

Listen carefully for the presence of a 200 Hz sinusoidal partial with only partials 400, 600, 800, 1000, 1200, and 1400 present. You won’t hear a 200 Hz partial at low sound intensities, yet a 200 Hz pitch will prevail. The 200 Hz partial is not there in the original sound, nor is it created for us by any part of the hearing system from the outer ear to the auditory cortex. What is created by that system is the sensation we call pitch. Pitch is not partial. — Eric J. Heller, Why You Hear What You Hear- An…, 2031 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Helmholtz wrongly assumed every heard pitch requires a physically present partial; Pitch can be perceived even when no partial exists at that frequency — Eric J. Heller, Why You Hear What You Hear- An…, 2031

Related

• Helmholtz wrongly assumed every heard pitch requires a physically present partial (similarity 0.90)
• Pitch can be perceived even when no partial exists at that frequency (similarity 0.89)
• Mixing noise with its own delayed copy can create a sense of pitch (similarity 0.87)
• Perceived pitch persists even when the matching frequency partial is absent (similarity 0.87)
• Helmholtz never clearly separated perceived pitch from the presence of a matching physical partial (similarity 0.86)
• Pitch can be heard even when no sound component exists at that frequency (similarity 0.86)
• Highest common factor of partials encodes perceived pitch (similarity 0.85)
• Pitch is perceptual while frequency is acoustic, and not all sounds have pitch (similarity 0.84)
• Correct theories of pitch perception were suppressed by Helmholtz’s authority (similarity 0.84)
• Helmholtz’s nonlinear-interaction theory of missing fundamentals is untenable (similarity 0.84)
• The ear perceives a virtual pitch not physically present in a sound’s components (similarity 0.84)
• A perceived pitch can exist with no partial at its own frequency. (similarity 0.84)
• Missing-fundamental pitch does not involve hearing an actual sinusoidal partial (similarity 0.84)
• Seebeck wrongly believed higher partials could reinforce the perceived fundamental partial. (similarity 0.83)
• Pitch can exist with no tone heard at that frequency, unlike phantom tones (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Pitch can be perceived even when no partial exists at that frequency #complicates (0.92) — Eric J. Heller, Why You Hear What You Hear- An…, 2031