Pitch can exist with no tone heard at that frequency, unlike phantom tones

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 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Another interval, f2 = 2048 and f1 = 3072 Hz (and analogous intervals), is remarkable in that, first, the difference tone f = f1 – f2 = 1024 and the combination tone f = 2f2 – f1 = 1024 are the same; thus what Koenig termed the lower beat tone (the difference tone) and the upper beat tone (the combination tone) coincide. This combination has loudness beats at 1024 Hz. If the higher frequency f1 is raised by A Hz, the difference tone should increase by A Hz, but the combination tone should decrease by A Hz. Indeed, as f1 = 3072 is lowered by hand, as is possible in the MAX patch Partials, one hears both rising and falling phantom tones (a rising combination tone and a falling difference tone) interfering with each other, causing beats when they are still relatively close in frequency. When f1 = 3073 Hz, there should be two beats per second, and that is what is heard. This is also the frequency of the waveform beats. If, on the other hand, the lower frequency is raised by A Hz, the difference tone should decrease by A Hz, but the combination tone should increase by 2 A Hz, implying a beating of between them of 3 A Hz. That is heard also. Quite an instructive example! We are feeding our ears only two pure tones, both above 2000 Hz, yet we are discussing the easily audible beating of two phantom tones, both around 1000 Hz! — Eric J. Heller, Why You Hear What You Hear- An…, 2303 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A perceived pitch can exist with no partial at its own frequency.; A bell’s perceived pitch is usually absent from its actual partials; Phantom tones are heard despite being absent from the presented sound (+8 more)

Related

• A perceived pitch can exist with no partial at its own frequency. (similarity 0.91)
• Pitch can be perceived even when no partial exists at that frequency (similarity 0.91)
• A bell’s perceived pitch is usually absent from its actual partials (similarity 0.91)
• Phantom tones are heard despite being absent from the presented sound (similarity 0.90)
• The ear perceives a virtual pitch not physically present in a sound’s components (similarity 0.89)
• A combined waveform can produce a perceived pitch absent from its actual frequency components (similarity 0.87)
• A short pop can still carry a recognizable resonant pitch (similarity 0.87)
• Mixing noise with its own delayed copy can create a sense of pitch (similarity 0.87)
• Highest common factor of partials encodes perceived pitch (similarity 0.86)
• Helmholtz wrongly assumed every heard pitch requires a physically present partial (similarity 0.86)
• Pitch can be heard even when no sound component exists at that frequency (similarity 0.86)
• Pitch and phantom tones are independent because pitch needs no tone at its frequency (similarity 0.85)
• Perceived pitch persists even when the matching frequency partial is absent (similarity 0.85)
• Two inaudible high tones can produce audible low phantom tones that interfere (similarity 0.84)
• Zwicker tones produce pitch without peripheral phase locking. (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• Pitch can be perceived even when no partial exists at that frequency #corroborates (0.95) — Eric J. Heller, Why You Hear What You Hear- An…, 2031
• Listeners reconstruct a perceived pitch that is not physically present #corroborates (0.92)
• A combined waveform can produce a perceived pitch absent from its actual frequency components #corroborates (0.90) — Eric J. Heller, Why You Hear What You Hear- An…, 323
• Two inaudible high tones can produce audible low phantom tones that interfere #corroborates (0.90) — Eric J. Heller, Why You Hear What You Hear- An…, 2303
• The ear generates phantom low tones absent from the actual signal #corroborates (0.88)
• Zwicker tones produce pitch without peripheral phase locking. #exemplifies (0.85) — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 5392
• Mixing noise with its own delayed copy can create a sense of pitch #corroborates (0.85)
• Zwicker tones have no cochlear mechanical or otoacoustic correlate. #exemplifies (0.80) — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 5396