Pitch shift from uniform frequency change depends on overtone structure

Evidence

The formation of the percept of pitch and improving its precision requires a sample of a signal with non-zero length. In theory, at least two periods of a periodic signal are necessary before the pitch percept can be formed. The minimum length of a tone burst after which a pitch is perceived is shown in Figure 10.3. The dashed line shows the length of two periods of sine signals. The shortest time window required for pitch perception is seen to be between 400 Hz and 6 kHz, where the length is less than 20 ms. The performance of human hearing in pitch perception is remarkable at low frequencies; the required length for a tone burst is only slightly longer than two periods. — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 1088 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Complex-tone pitch tracks the spectral pitch of lower components — Professor Dr.-Ing. Hugo Fastl, Professor Dr.-Ing. Eberhard, Psychoacoustics- Facts and Models, 706; Spectral line structure predicts pitch strength magnitude.; Partially masking a tone shifts its perceived pitch upward — Professor Dr.-Ing. Hugo Fastl, Professor Dr.-Ing. Eberhard, Psychoacoustics- Facts and Models, 3275 (+3 more)

Related

• Complex-tone pitch tracks the spectral pitch of lower components (similarity 0.87)
• Pitch perception requires a tone lasting at least two signal periods (similarity 0.86)
• Shifted complex tones cannot isolate pure temporal fine structure effects in pitch (similarity 0.85)
• Fine structure alone does not determine pitch differences in complex tones sharing envelope frequency (similarity 0.84)
• Perception of changing sound requires simultaneous time and frequency resolution (similarity 0.83)
• Pitch differences caused by shifts are not purely fine-structure based (similarity 0.83)
• Shifted complex tone pitch depends on envelope-fine-structure interaction, not fine structure alone. (similarity 0.83)
• Partially masking a tone shifts its perceived pitch upward (similarity 0.83)
• Raising the level of a complex tone shifts its pitch downward. (similarity 0.82)
• Even nonperiodic noise sounds convey a weak pitch sensation based on spectral energy distribution (similarity 0.82)
• Perceived pitch depends on a note’s individual overtone amplitudes (similarity 0.82)
• A sound can rise in pitch forever without ever rising in frequency (similarity 0.81)
• Shifting harmonic components changes fine structure while keeping envelope identical (similarity 0.81)
• A perceived pitch can exist with no partial at its own frequency. (similarity 0.81)
• Pitch shift magnitude correlates inversely with pitch strength of masked tones (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Shifted complex tones cannot isolate pure temporal fine structure effects in pitch #expands (0.80)
• Pitch perception requires a tone lasting at least two signal periods #qualifies (0.72) — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 1088